See also: terit and terít

Hungarian

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Etymology

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tér (to turn in a different direction) +‎ -ít (causative suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈteːriːt]
  • Hyphenation: té‧rít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

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térít

  1. (transitive, now rare, except in certain figurative phrases) to turn, direct (a moving human, animal, or vehicle, to a direction)
    Synonyms: fordít, hajt, igazít
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to convert (to another faith, with -ra/-re)
  3. (transitive, construed as magához térít or eszméletre térít) to bring round (to resuscitate)
  4. (transitive, formal) to pay (as recompense)
    Synonym: fizet

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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Further reading

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  • térít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN