# bandit
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbændɪt/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)
* One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?
* An outlaw.
* One who cheats others.
* (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
* (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

#### Synonyms

* (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
* (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
* (one who cheats others): cheater

#### Derived terms

* arse bandit
* ass bandit
* back-door bandit
* bail bandit
* banditism
* banditry
* Beltway bandit
* blue light bandit
* booty bandit
* botty bandit
* communist bandit
* dumpster bandit
* garbage bandit
* gas meter bandit
* make out like a bandit
* multi-armed bandit
* one-arm bandit
* one-armed bandit
* pussy bandit
* shag-bandit
* shag bandit
* squeegee bandit
* time bandit
* trash bandit

#### Translations
### Verb

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)
* (ambitransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
** 1921, Munsey's Magazine, volume 74, page 38:First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.
** 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 160, page 7:As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

### References

* ↑ Funk, W. J. ((Can we date this quote?)) Word origins and their romantic stories, New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc.

### Anagrams

* IT Band, IT band

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian банди́т (bandít), ultimately from Italian bandito.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bɑnˈdit]
* Hyphenation: ban‧dit

### Noun

bandit (definite accusative banditi, plural banditlər)
* bandit, outlaw
    Synonym: soyğunçu

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “bandit” in Obastan.com.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From bandir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [bənˈdit]
* IPA: (Valencia) [banˈdit]

### Noun

bandit m (plural bandits, feminine bandida)
* outlaw

#### Related terms

* bàndol

### Further reading

* “bandit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑ̃.di/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -i
* Homophone: bandits

### Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)
* bandit
    des procédés de bandit ― dishonest practices
** 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C$^{ie}$, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:« Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »"Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."

#### Derived terms

* banditisme
* bandit de grand chemin
* bandit manchot

#### Descendants

* → German: Bandit
** → Bulgarian: банди́т (bandít)
** → Polish: bandyta
* → Norman: bandit
* → Romanian: bandit

### Further reading

* “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbandɪt̚]
* Hyphenation: ban‧dit

### Noun

bandit (plural bandit-bandit)
* bandit
    Synonyms: penjahat, pencuri

#### Derived terms

* kebanditan
* membandit

### Further reading

* “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

### Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)
* (Jersey) bandit

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

### Noun

bandit m (plural bandiți)
* bandit

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Italian bandito.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bǎndiːt/
* Hyphenation: ban‧dit

### Noun

bàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)
* bandit

#### Declension
### References

* “bandit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Noun

bandit c
* (somewhat dated) a career criminal living outside society; a robber, a bandit

#### Derived terms

* enarmad bandit

#### References

* bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bandit in Svensk ordbok (SO)