bandit

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), from Late Latin bannire (“to proclaim”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪt/

Noun

bandit (plural bandits)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military) An enemy aircraft.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

Verb

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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

Anagrams

• IT Band, IT band

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.di/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume 1, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter XXXV:

     « 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."

Further reading

• “bandit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bandiet.

Noun

bandit

1. bandit

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

Etymology

From Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎndiːt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

Noun

bàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)

1. bandit

References

• “bandit” in Hrvatski jezični portal