fita

Borrowed from Russian фита́ (fitá).

fita (plural fitas)

1. The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfi.ta]

fita f (plural fites)

1. milestone, boundary stone

   Synonym: molló

2. waypoint
3. (mathematics) bound

• fita inferior
• fita superior
• fitar

• fit

• “fita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈfita] (Aosta)

fita (Valdôtain, Vaudois)

1. Alternative form of féta (“party, celebration”)

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita/ [ˈfi.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

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”).^[1] Compare also Italian fetta.

fita f (plural fitas)

1. band, ribbon
2. (sewing) wristband, girdle, hem
3. elongated plot of land

From Latin fictum (“fixed”).

fita

1. feminine singular of fito

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• 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: ILG
• 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

fita

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐍄𐌰

• IPA^(key): /fì.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸɪ̀.táː]

fìtā f (possessed form fìtar̃)

1. graduation

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪːta/

  Rhymes: -ɪːta

fita f (genitive singular fitu, no plural)

1. fat
2. fatness

Declension of fita
f-w1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	fita	fitan
accusative	fitu	fituna
dative	fitu	fitunni
genitive	fitu	fitunnar

• fitusækinn
• offita (“obesity”)

fita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitaði, supine fitað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to fatten, make fat

   Bændurnir fita dýrin.

   The farmers fatten the animals.

• fitna

From Portuguese fita.

fita (plural fita-fita)

1. tape, ribbon, band

   fita di sapato ― shoelaces (literally, “shoe ribbon”)

2. film, movie

   Synonym: pintura

   fita-cinéma ― film

   olâ fita ― to see a movie, to go to the cinema

• fazê-fita (“to be duplicitous”)

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

fita

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fit

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

fita f (genitive fitu)

1. fat, grease

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

• “fita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Rhymes: -itɐ
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

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

fita f (plural fitas)

1. tape, ribbon, band
2. (colloquial) film, movie

   Synonyms: filme, película

3. (Brazil, video games, colloquial) cartridge

   Synonym: cartucho

4. (Portugal, education, slang) a colored ribbon to indicate membership of a faculty
5. (Portugal, colloquial) necktie

   Synonym: gravata

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

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

From Latin ficta.

fita f (plural fitas)

1. act, deception, lie

   É tudo fita!

   It's all an act!

   Deixem-se de fitas!

   Stop pretending!

2. tantrum

   Fazer fita.

   To pull a tantrum.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fita.

• meter fita

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fita

1. inflection of fitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fita”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “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, 2009–2024
• “fita”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “fita”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “fita”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “fita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

fita

1. genitive singular of fit ( = fish)

• IPA^(key): /ɸiˈ.t̪a/

fita

1. (stative) to be right, correct

Conjugation of fita (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tifita	mifita	afita
2nd person		nifita	fifita
3rd person	inanimate	ifita	difita
	animate	mafita
imperative		—, fita	—, fita

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as fitá)