cito

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cito"

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

cito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of citar

Esperanto

Etymology

From citi +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sito/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: ci‧to

Noun

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

  1. quotation, citation
    Synonym: citaĵo

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃito/ [ˈt͡ʃi.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: ci‧to

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
    Synonyms: citē, celeriter
  2. soon, before long, within a short time
Descendants
  • Asturian: ceu, ceo, cedu
  • Italian: cito
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cedo
  • Sardinian: chito
  • 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
    • c. 100 CEc. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires VIII.80–4:
      Ambiguae si quando citabere testis
      incertaeque rei, Phalaris licet imperet ut sis
      falsus et admoto dictet periuria tauro,
      summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
      et propter uitam uiuendi perdere causas.
      If ever you are summoned as witness
      to an uncertain and doubtful case, though a Phalaris may demand you
      to be false and dictate perjuries with his moved bull,
      believe the greatest wrong is to prefer
      life to honor and by life to lose the reason of life.
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[1], 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