fita

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фита́ (fitá).

Noun

fita (plural fitas)

1. The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.

Translations

Anagrams

• FIAT, Fait, Fiat, fiat

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin * fīcta, from Latin petra (“stone”) and figere (“to fix in place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

fita f (plural fites)

1. milestone, boundary stone

   Synonym: molló

2. waypoint
3. (mathematics) bound

Derived terms

• fita inferior
• fita superior
• fitar

Related terms

• fit

Further reading

• “fita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Etymology 1

Probably from Latin vitta (“ribbon”), although the required evolution, with Latin <vi> becoming /fi/, is irregular. Alternatively from Suevic, from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *fetjō, compare Old High German fizza (“thread, tissue”), Old Norse fitja (“to knit”). Compare also Italian fetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita̝/

Noun

fita f (plural fitas)

1. band, ribbon
2. (sewing) wristband, girdle, hem
3. elongated plot of land

Etymology 2

From Latin fictum (“fixed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita̝/

Adjective

fita

1. feminine singular of fito

Derived terms

• Pedrafita

Verb

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “fita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fita” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

fita

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐍄𐌰

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fì.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

fìtā f (possessed form fìtar̃)

1. graduation

Icelandic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪːta/

  Rhymes: -ɪːta

Noun

fita f (genitive singular fitu, no plural)

1. fat
2. fatness

Declension

Derived terms

• fitusækinn
• offita (“obesity”)

Verb

fita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitaði, supine fitað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to fatten, make fat

   Bændurnir fita dýrin.

   The farmers fatten the animals.

Conjugation

Related terms

• fitna

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fita

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fit

Old Norse

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

fita f (genitive fitu)

1. fat, grease

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: fita f
• >? Norwegian Nynorsk: fete m

References

• “fita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -itɐ
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Likely from Latin vitta (“band, ribbon”).

Noun

fita f (plural fitas)

1. tape, ribbon, band
2. (colloquial) film, movie

   Synonyms: filme, película

3. (Brazil, video games, colloquial) cartridge

   Synonym: cartucho

4. (Portugal, education, slang) a colored ribbon to indicate membership of a faculty
5. (Portugal, colloquial) necktie

   Synonym: gravata

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Bengali: ফিতা (phita)
• → Hindi: फ़ीता (fītā)

Etymology 2

From Latin ficta.

Noun

fita f (plural fitas)

1. act, deception, lie

   É tudo fita!

   It's all an act!

   Deixem-se de fitas!

   Stop pretending!

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

Derived terms

• meter fita

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fita” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “fita” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fita” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “fita” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “fita” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “fita” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “fita” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Volapük

Noun

fita

1. genitive singular of fit ( = fish)

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸiˈ.t̪a/

Verb

fita

1. (stative) to be right, correct

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as fitá)