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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”).
Verb
cite (third-person singular simple present cites, present participle citing, simple past and past participle cited)
- (transitive) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
- (transitive) To mention; to make mention of.
2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
- To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
- (transitive, law) To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
2023 August 29, “Tribal ranger draws weapon on climate activists blocking road to Burning Man; conduct under review”, in AP News:According to the tribe’s chairman, rangers cited five of the demonstrators, who had traveled to Nevada from New York, Washington, California and the European country of Malta. The chairman did not say what they were cited for.
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Etymology 2
From the first syllable of citation. Analogous to quote, from quotation.
Noun
cite (plural cites)
- (informal) A citation.
We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
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Further reading
- “cite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “cite”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “cite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
cite
- vocative singular of cit
French
Pronunciation
Verb
cite
- inflection of citer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Participle
cite
- vocative masculine singular of citus
References
- “cite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cete, cetee, cetie, cety, citee, citie, citty, city, cyte, cyty, sete, scite, site, syte, syty
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French cite.
Pronunciation
Noun
cite (plural cites)
- A city (settlement larger than a town)
- Coordinate term: toun
c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 8:1, page 32r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- (religion) A stronghold or fortress.
- (rare) The people of a city.
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Portuguese
Verb
cite
- inflection of citar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθite/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsite/
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: ci‧te
Verb
cite
- inflection of citar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative