cito

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

cito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of citar

Esperanto

Etymology

From citi +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sito/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: cit‧o

Noun

cito (accusative singular citon, plural citoj, accusative plural citojn)

  1. quotation, citation
    Synonym: citaĵo

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin citō (soon, at once).

Adjective

cito (comparative lebih cito, superlative paling cito)

  1. (medicine, literal) fast, quick
    Synonym: spoed

Noun

cito (plural cito-cito)

  1. (medicine) emergency

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦕꦶꦛꦏ꧀ (cithak, bone between the eyes).

Noun

cito (plural cito-cito)

  1. horse goggles, blinkers

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.to/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: cì‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin citō.

Adverb

cito

  1. soon
  2. at once

Etymology 2

Verb

cito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of citare

Further reading

  • cito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From citus +‎ .

Adverb

citō̆

  1. quickly, fast
    Synonym: celeriter
  2. soon, before long, within a short time
Descendants
  • Asturian: ceu, ceo, cedu
  • Italian: cito
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cedo
  • Spanish: cedo, cito

Etymology 2

From cieō (move, stir) +‎ -tō.

Verb

citō (present infinitive citāre, perfect active citāvī, supine citātum); first conjugation

  1. to cause to move, excite
    Synonyms: eccitō, incitō, excitō, instinguō, instigō, inflammō, sollicitō
  2. to summon, invite, call
    Synonyms: prōvocō, advocō, ēvocō, invocō, invitō, inclāmō, arcessō, acciō, exciō
Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • cito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to quote a passage of Plato: locum Platonis afferre, proferre (not citare)
    • to cite a person to give evidence on a matter: aliquem testem alicuius rei (in aliquid) citare
    • (ambiguous) at full gallop: equo citato or admisso
    • (ambiguous) to advance rapidly: citato gradu incedere (cf. sect. II. 5)

Lombard

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Interjection

cito

  1. shh, hush, silence

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

cito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of citar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Verb

cito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of citar