evite

Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)

1. (now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity,

     The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]

   • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since,

     ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.

   • 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona,

     "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

   • 1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev and Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology,

     Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.

• evitable

evite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of evitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of evitar

From French éviter

evite

1. avoid

evite

1. adverbial past passive participle of evar

evite

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of evitar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of evitar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of evitar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of evitar

• eveet, eveat

Seen in Early Scots, borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”). Cognate with modern French éviter and English evite (obsolete in English since the 17th century).

• IPA^(key): /əˈvit/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ɛˈviʔ/

evite (third-person singular present evites, present participle evitin, past evitet, past participle evitet)

1. (archaic, transitive) To avoid, escape, or shun.

evite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of evitar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of evitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of evitar.