# fita
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фита́ (fitá).

### Noun

fita (plural fitas)
* The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* fiat, IATF, Fiat, FIAT, Taif, Tafi, Fait, fait

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfi.ta]

#### Noun

fita f (plural fites)
* milestone, boundary stone
    Synonym: molló
* waypoint
* (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, 2025
* “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
* inflection of fitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Franco-Provençal
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfita] (Aosta)

### Noun

fita (Valdôtain, Vaudois)
* Alternative form of féta (“party, celebration”)

### References

* fête in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fĕsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 482

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfita/ [ˈfi.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Hyphenation: fi‧ta

### 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.

#### Noun

fita f (plural fitas)
* band, ribbon
* (sewing) wristband, girdle, hem
* elongated plot of land

### Etymology 2

From Latin fictum (“fixed”).

#### Adjective

fita
* feminine singular of fito

##### Derived terms

* Pedrafita

#### Verb

fita
* inflection of fitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “veto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Gothic
### Romanization

fita
* Romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐍄𐌰

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fì.táː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɸɪ̀.táː]

### Noun

fìtā f (possessed form fìtar̃)
* graduation

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪːta/
    Rhymes: -ɪːta

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

fita f (genitive singular fitu, nominative plural fitur)
* fat
* fatness

##### Derived terms

* fitusækinn
* offita (“obesity”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitaði, supine fitað)
* to fatten, make fat [with accusative]
    Bændurnir fita dýrin.The farmers fatten the animals.

##### Related terms

* fitna

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese fita.

### Noun

fita (plural fita-fita)
* tape, ribbon, band
    fita di sapato ― shoelaces (literally, “shoe ribbon”)
* film, movie
    Synonym: pintura
    fita-cinéma ― film
    olâ fita ― to see a movie, to go to the cinema

#### Derived terms

* fazê-fita (“to be duplicitous”)

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

fita
* (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)
* fat, grease

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fita”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -itɐ
* Hyphenation: fi‧ta

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

fita f (plural fitas)
* tape, ribbon, band
* (colloquial) film, movie
    Synonyms: filme, película
* (Brazil, video games, colloquial) cartridge
    Synonym: cartucho
* (Portugal, education, slang) a colored ribbon to indicate membership of a faculty
* (Portugal, colloquial) necktie
    Synonym: gravata

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

##### Derived terms

* fita adesiva
* fita cassete
* fita de Möbius
* fita demo
* fita dentária
* fita gomada
* fita isoladora
* fita magnética
* fita métrica
* fita-cola
* fita-crepe
* fita-do-mar
* serra de fita

##### Descendants

* Macanese: fita
* → Bengali: ফিতা (phita)
* → Hindi: फ़ीता (fītā)

### Etymology 2

From Latin ficta.

#### Noun

fita f (plural fitas)
* act, deception, lie
    É tudo fita!It's all an act!
    Deixem-se de fitas!Stop pretending!
* tantrum
    Fazer fita.To pull a tantrum.

##### 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
* inflection of fitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “fita”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “fita” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “fita”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “fita”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “fita”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “fita”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “fita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Volapük
### Noun

fita
* genitive singular of fit ( = fish)

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɸiˈ.t̪a/

### Verb

fita
* (stative) to be right, correct

#### Conjugation
### References

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