nit

See also: nît and -nit

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • Homophone: knit

Etymology 1

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱ(o)nid- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís))

Noun

nit (plural nits)

  1. The egg of a louse.
  2. A young louse.
  3. (Britain, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
  4. A nitpicker.
  5. A minor shortcoming.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).

Noun

nit (plural nits)

  1. A candela per square meter.
    This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.

Etymology 3

Noun

nit (plural nits)

  1. Synonym of nat (logarithmic unit of information)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan nuit, from Old Occitan (compare Occitan nuèit), from Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare French nuit, Portuguese noite, Spanish noche, Italian notte), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (compare English night).

Pronunciation

Noun

nit f (plural nits)

  1. night
    durant la nit
    during the night

Central Mahuatlán Zapoteco

Noun

nit

  1. water

Reference

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɲɪt/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

nit f

  1. thread

Derived terms

Further reading

  • nit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • nit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Ozolotepec Zapotec

Noun

nit

  1. water

Reference

Polish

nity

Etymology

From German Niete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɲit/

Noun

nit m inan

  1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From German Niete.

Noun

nit n (plural nituri)

  1. rivet

San Baltazar Loxicha Zapotec

Noun

nit

  1. water

Reference

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nîːt/

Noun

nȋt f (Cyrillic spelling ни̑т)

  1. thread
  2. flow, continuity

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnít/
  • Tonal orthography: nȉt

Noun

nìt f (genitive níti, nominative plural níti)

  1. thread

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From German Niet.

Noun

nit c

  1. a rivet, a stud
  2. the action of braking (a motor vehicle) very hard
  3. a lottery ticket which gave no reward
  4. zeal

Declension

Declension of nit 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nit niten nitar nitarna
Genitive nits nitens nitars nitarnas

Synonyms

  • (braking): tvärnit
  • (lottery ticket): nitlott

See also

  • nita
  • gå på en nit
  • tvärnit

Volapük

Noun

nit (plural nits)

  1. staple
  2. staple for office stapler

Declension

Wolof

Noun

nit (definite form nit ki)

  1. person

Zipser German

Alternative forms

Adverb

nit

  1. (Romania, including Wassertal) not

References

  • Claus Stephani, Zipser Mära und Kasska (1989)
  • Anton-Joseph Ilk, Zipser Volksgut aus dem Wassertal (1990)
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