wita

Alternative forms

• witta, wȳta

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English wīte.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.ta/, [ˈu̯iːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ta/, [ˈwiːt̪ä]

Noun

wīta f (genitive wītae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. a fine, an amercement, a mulct (a pecuniary penalty)
2. a vendetta, a feud

References

• "wita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “wita”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,136/2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲita/

Verb

wita

1. third-person singular present of witaś

Etymology

From Arabic وَطَاء (waṭāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪ.ta/

Noun

wita f (plural witat)

1. flatland

Alternative forms

• weota
• wieta
• wiota — Mercian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *witō. Cognate with Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon *wito (attested in giwito “witness”), and Old High German wizzo. Equivalent to witan +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.tɑ/

Noun

wita m

1. wise person; (especially in compounds) knower
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     forþon ne mæġ wearþan wīs · wer, ǣr hē āge
     wintra dǣl in woruldrīċe. · Wita sċeal ġeþyldiġ.

     thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
     a part of years in world-kingdom. A wise man must be patient.

2. advisor

Noun

wita

1. saliva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: wi‧ta

Verb

wita

1. third-person singular present of witać

Participle

wita

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of wity