# cit
## English
### Alternative forms

* cit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪt/
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Etymology 1

Clipping of citizen

#### Noun

cit (plural cits)
* (derogatory, now rare): a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
** 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:[…] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.
** 1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […]; T[homas] Davies, […], published 1760, →OCLC, Act II, page 56:Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
** 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza:Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.
** 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 154:As a new-comer in the township, as a cit, and a devotee to beer, Cummings was an excuse to keep an eye on Millie[.]

##### Derived terms

* citess
* cittess

### Etymology 2

Clipping of citation

#### Noun

cit (plural cits)
* citation

### References

* Oxford English Dictionary

### Anagrams

* CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

## Czech
### Etymology

Deverbal of cítit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sɪt]

### Noun

cit m inan (relational adjective citový)
* feeling
    získat cit pro ― to get a feel for
    chovat cit ― to have affection
* emotion
    Synonym: emoce

#### Derived terms

* bezcitný m

#### Related terms

* cítit

### Further reading

* “cit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “cit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “cit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Esperanto

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## Gallo
### Etymology

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

### Noun

cit m (plural cits)
* cider

## Latin
### Verb

cit
* third-person singular present active indicative of ciō

## Old English
### Verb

ċīt
* second-person singular present indicative of ċīdan

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin cīvitās via the nominative singular. Compare citet, from the Latin accusative cīvitātem.

### Noun

cit
* Synonym of citet

### References

Van Emdem, Wolfgang G. 2000. Medieval French representations of city and other walls. In Tracy, James (ed.), City walls: The urban enceinte in global perspective, 540. Cambridge University Press.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +‎ bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʲid/

### Verb

cit
* though… (they) are (subjunctive)
** c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207$^b$11
    Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀘𑀺𑀢𑁆 (Brahmi script)
* चित् (Devanagari script)
* চিত্ (Bengali script)
* චිත් (Sinhalese script)
* စိတ် or ၸိတ် (Burmese script)
* จิตฺ or จิต (Thai script)
* ᨧᩥᨲ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
* ຈິຕ຺ or ຈິຕ (Lao script)
* ចិត៑ (Khmer script)
* 𑄌𑄨𑄖𑄴 (Chakma script)

### Verb

cit
* root of cintayati

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ɕit˥/
* Tone numbers: cit$^7$
* Hyphenation: cit

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *cɯːtᴰ (“insipid”). Cognate with Thai จืด (jʉ̀ʉt), Lao ຈືດ (chư̄t), Shan ၸိုတ်ႇ (tsùet).

#### Adjective

cit (Sawndip forms 𰝘 or 𭶈 or 泏 or 㲺 or 咄 or 𠮟 or ⿰米直 or ⿰淡出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)
* bland; insipid
    Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet, (dialectal) ciu
* having poor appetite
* cold; emotionally distant
    Synonyms: (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) cuet

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Cognate with Thai จุด?”)

#### Verb

cit (Sawndip forms 炪 or 𤊧 or 咄 or 𰞩 or 𭵎 or ⿺燒出, 1957–1982 spelling cit)
* to ignite; to light; to start (a fire)
    Synonyms: diemj, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) lej
* to smoke (a cigarette)
    Synonyms: (dialectal) gwn, (dialectal) cup, (dialectal) ndoet, (dialectal) cwt, (dialectal) boep, (dialectal) coemh
    cit iento smoke cigarettes
* to treat with moxibustion
    Synonyms: (dialectal) huj, (dialectal) ndut, (dialectal) ndat, (dialectal) gyot, (dialectal) nat

### Etymology 3

From Chinese 齣.

#### Classifier

cit (1957–1982 spelling cit)
* Used for performances, e.g., plays, operas, storytellings.