-cito
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cito"
Italian
editPronunciation
editSuffix
edit-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citi)
- Alternative form of -cita (“-cyte”)
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “vessel, container”).
Suffix
edit-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos)
Derived terms
editSpanish
editEtymology 1
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Alternative forms
edit- -cita f
Suffix
edit-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos, feminine -cita, feminine plural -citas)
- Alternative form of -ito
Usage notes
edit- Added to masculine words and names to denote a diminutive form. It occurs especially with words ending in a consonant or a vowel other than -o, and does not delete the final vowel (contrast with -ito, which is added in place of a vowel that gets deleted).
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “vessel, container”).
Suffix
edit-cito m (noun-forming suffix, plural -citos)
Related terms
editDerived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “-cito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ito
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- Italian lemmas
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- Italian noun-forming suffixes
- Italian countable suffixes
- Italian masculine suffixes
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- Portuguese noun-forming suffixes
- Portuguese countable suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes
- Spanish diminutive suffixes
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
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