# cito
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsi.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsi.to]

### Verb

cito
* first-person singular present indicative of citar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From citi +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sito]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: cit‧o

### Noun

cito (accusative singular citon, plural citoj, accusative plural citojn)
* quotation, citation
    Synonym: citaĵo

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin citō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡ʃito]
* Hyphenation: ci‧to

### Noun

cito (plural cito-cito)
* (medicine) quickly, fast
    Synonym: spoed

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.to/
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: cì‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin citō.

#### Adverb

cito
* soon
* at once

### 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

* coti

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈki.toː/, [ˈkɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.to/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt̪o]
* (iambic shortening) (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈki.to/, [ˈkɪt̪ɔ]

### Etymology 1

From citus +‎ -ō.

#### Adverb

citō (comparative citius, superlative citissimē)
* quickly, fast
    Synonym: celeriter
* soon, before long, within a short time

##### Descendants

* Asturian: ceo
* Italian: cito
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cedo
** Galician: cedo
** Portuguese: cedo
* Spanish: cedo, cito

### Etymology 2

From cieō (“move, stir”) +‎ -tō.

#### Verb

citō (present infinitive citāre, perfect active citāvī, supine citātum); first conjugation
* to cause to move, excite
    Synonyms: eccitō, incitō, excitō, instinguō, instigō, inflammō, sollicitō
* to summon, invite, call
    Synonyms: prōvocō, advocō, ēvocō, invocō, invitō, inclāmō, arcessō, acciō, exciō

##### Conjugation

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

##### Derived terms

* concitō
* excitō
* incitō
* ōscitō
* recitō
* suscitō

##### Descendants

* Catalan: citar
* → German: zitieren
* Italian: citare
* Old French: citer
** → English: cite
** French: citer
* Portuguese: citar
* Romanian: cita
* Spanish: citar
* → Swedish: citera

### 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, 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

* sito, zito

### Pronunciation

* (Western) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃitu], [t͡si-], [-to]
* (Eastern) IPA: [ˈsito], [hi-], [-tu]

### Interjection

cito
* shh, hush, silence

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.tu/

### Verb

cito
* first-person singular present indicative of citar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθito/ [ˈθi.t̪o]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Syllabification: ci‧to

### Verb

cito
* first-person singular present indicative of citar