cito
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cito"
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
cito
- first-person singular present indicative of citar
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sito/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: ci‧to
Noun
cito (accusative singular citon, plural citoj, accusative plural citojn)
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)
Noun
cito (plural cito-cito)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Javanese ꦕꦶꦛꦏ꧀ (cithak, “bone between the eyes”).
Noun
cito (plural cito-cito)
- horse goggles, blinkers
Further reading
- “cito”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.to/
- Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: cì‧to
Etymology 1
Adverb
cito
Etymology 2
Verb
cito
- first-person singular present indicative of citare
Further reading
- cito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɪ.toː], [ˈkɪ.tɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.to]
Etymology 1
Adverb
citō̆
Descendants
Etymology 2
From cieō (“move, stir”) + -tō.
Verb
citō (present infinitive citāre, perfect active citāvī, supine citātum); first conjugation
- to cause to move, excite
- to summon, invite, call
- c. 100 CE – c. 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.
- If ever you are summoned as witness
- Ambiguae si quando citabere testis
Conjugation
Conjugation of citō (first 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)
- to quote a passage of Plato: locum Platonis afferre, proferre (not citare)
Lombard
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Interjection
cito
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsi.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tu/
Verb
cito
- first-person singular present indicative of citar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθito/ [ˈθi.t̪o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: ci‧to
Verb
cito
- first-person singular present indicative of citar