gite

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See also: gité, gîte, and gîté

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

gite (plural gites)

  1. Alternative form of gîte

Etymology 2

Unclear; perhaps related to Old French guite.

Pronunciation

Noun

gite (plural gites)

  1. (obsolete) A gown.
    • a. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng, section 68:
      Whan she doth her aray / And gyrdeth in her gytes : / Stytched and pranked wyth pletes.
    • 1567, Turberville, Epithets & Sonnets (1837), 295:
      Thy brodred gyte makes thee a gallant gyrle.
    • 1589, George Peele, Tale Troy, 558/1:
      Done is thy pride, dim is thy glorious gite, / Slaine is thy prince in this unhappy fight.
    • a. 1597, George Peele, David & Bethsabe, II, iii:
      How suddenly declineth David's pride! / As doth the daylight settle in the west, / So dim is David's glory and his gite. / Die, David; for to thee is left no seed.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv:
      When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed,
      And don'd a gite in deepest purple dy'd.
Alternative forms

Anagrams

Aiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taci (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-huaji, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

Noun

gite

  1. his brother

References

  • Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

gite

  1. inflection of giter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Fula

Noun

gite

  1. plural of yitere

Usage notes

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.te/
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Hyphenation: gì‧te

Noun

gite f

  1. plural of gita

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English gyte, from Proto-West Germanic *guti, from Proto-Germanic *gutiz.

Noun

gite (plural gites)

  1. (of a liquid) An outpouring, shedding
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