bite

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English

Etymology

From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).

Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bīt, IPA^(key): /baɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: bight, by't, byte

Verb

bite (third-person singular simple present bites, present participle biting, simple past bit, past participle bitten or bit)

1. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

2. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

4. (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

5. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

6. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

7. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

8. (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

9. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.

10. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

11. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
12. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
13. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

14. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
15. (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

16. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

17. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.

18. (obsolete, transitive, slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

Hyponyms

• bite down

Derived terms

Related terms

• bitter

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: beti
• Portuguese: baitar (hip-hop slang)

Translations

Noun

bite (countable and uncountable, plural bites)

1. The act of biting.
3. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

4. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

   Synonym: sting

5. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
6. (slang) Something unpleasant.
7. (slang) An act of plagiarism.

8. A small meal or snack.
9. (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
10. (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
11. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
12. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
13. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
14. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
15. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
16. (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
17. (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.

Derived terms

Related terms

• beetle
• bit

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: beti

Translations

Anagrams

• Ebit, Beit, EBIT, ebit, tebi-

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪtɛ]
• Homophone: byte

Noun

bite

1. vocative singular of bit

French

Alternative forms

• bitte

Etymology

From Old Norse biti (“beam, girder”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bit/

Noun

bite f (plural bites)

1. (slang, vulgar) knob, cock, dick

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

bite

1. fruit

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbajt/
• Rhymes: -ajt

Noun

bite m (invariable)

1. (dentistry) split (dental device)

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi˩.te˧/

Adjective

bite

1. hot

Related terms

• bi-üngte

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[2], Payap University, page 74

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bitē (compare Lithuanian bitė), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-, *bʰī-. Cognate to English bee.

Noun

bite f (5th declension)

1. bee

Declension

Lithuanian

Noun

bitè

1. instrumental singular of bìtė (“bee”)

Noun

bìte

1. instrumental singular of bìtė (“bee”)

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto bite and Nüpode Huitoto bitde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbitɛ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧te

Verb

bite

1. (intransitive) to come

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 76

Neapolitan

Noun

bite

1. plural of bita

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• bitj (Föhr-Amrum)
• bit (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian bīta, from Proto-West Germanic *bītan.

Pronunciation

• (Mooring) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪtʰə]

Verb

bite

1. (Mooring, Halligen) to bite

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Verb

bite (present tense biter, past tense bet or beit, past participle bitt, present participle bitende)

1. To bite.

Derived terms

• bite i gresset
• bitende (adjective)

Related terms

• bitt (noun)

References

• “bite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bite (present tense bit, past tense beit, supine bite, past participle biten, present participle bitande, imperative bit)

1. e-infinitive form of bita (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

References

• “bite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *biti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.te/

Noun

bite m

1. bite

Descendants

• Middle English: bitte, bite (merged with descendant of Old English bita)
  • Scots: bit
  • English: bit

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.tɛ/
• Rhymes: -itɛ
• Syllabification: bi‧te

Participle

bite

1. inflection of bity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Turkish

Noun

bite

1. dative singular of bit

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bīta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbitə/

Verb

bite

1. To bite.

Inflection

Further reading

• “bite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011