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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitare.
Pronunciation
Verb
recite (third-person singular simple present recites, present participle reciting, simple past and past participle recited)
- (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
Janice is able to recite pi to 100 decimals.
- (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
- (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.
Synonyms
Translations
to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text
- Arabic: تَلَا (talā)
- Bulgarian: рецитирам (recitiram), декламирам (bg) (deklamiram)
- Catalan: recitar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 背誦/背诵 (zh) (bèisòng)
- Czech: recitovat
- Danish: recitere (da)
- Dutch: reciteren (nl)
- Esperanto: deklami
- Finnish: lausua (fi)
- French: réciter (fr)
- Galician: recitar (gl)
- German: vortragen (de); rezitieren (de); zu Gehör bringen; (poem also:) aufsagen (de); deklamieren (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽 (ussiggwan)
- Greek: απαγγέλλω (el) (apangéllo)
- Hebrew: דִקְלֵם (he) (diqlém)
- Hungarian: felmond (hu), szaval (hu)
- Japanese: 暗唱する (ja) (あんしょうする, anshō suru), 吟ずる (ぎんずる, ginzuru)
- Korean: 부르다 (ko) (bureuda), 암송하다 (ko) (amsonghada), 읊다 (ko) (eupda), 낭독하다 (nangdokhada), 복창하다 (bokchanghada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خوێندن (ckb) (xwêndin)
- Latin: recitō
- Maori: tātaku, takutaku, takitaki, whakaaraara, tohitū (without a break), taki, taki-ā-kākā (by rote, off by heart)
- Norman: r'citer
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: resitere
- Nynorsk: resitere, resitera
- Ottoman Turkish: اوقومق (okumak)
- Persian: برخواندن (fa) (barxândan)
- Polish: recytować (pl) impf, wyrecytować pf
- Portuguese: recitar (pt)
- Rapa Nui: rongorongo
- Russian: деклами́ровать (ru) impf (deklamírovatʹ), продеклами́ровать (ru) pf (prodeklamírovatʹ), цити́ровать (ru) impf (citírovatʹ), процити́ровать (ru) pf (procitírovatʹ)
- Sanskrit: पठति (sa) (paṭhati)
- Spanish: recitar (es), declamar (es)
- Thai: ท่อง (th) (tɔ̂ng)
- Welsh: adrodd (cy)
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to list or enumerate something
Etymology 2
From re- + cite.
Pronunciation
Verb
recite (third-person singular simple present recites, present participle reciting, simple past and past participle recited)
- Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography).
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
recite f
- plural of recita
Portuguese
Verb
recite
- inflection of recitar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
recite
- inflection of recitar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative