fita

Borrowed from Russian фита́ (fitá).

fita (plural fitas)

1. The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.

• FIAT, Fiat, fiat

fita f (plural fites)

1. milestone

Probably from Latin vitta (“ribbon”), although the required evolution, with Latin <vi> becoming /fi/, is irregular. Alternatively from Suevic, from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *fetjō, compare Old High German fizza (“thread, tissue”), Old Norse fitja (“to knit”).[1] Compare also Italian fetta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita̝/

fita f (plural fitas)

1. band, ribbon
2. (sewing) wristband, girdle, hem
3. elongated plot of land

From Latin fictum (“fixed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfita̝/

fita f (masculine fito, feminine plural fitas, masculine plural fitos)

1. fixed in place; erect

• Pedrafita

fita

1. third-person singular present indicative of fitar
2. second-person singular imperative of fitar

• “fita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fita” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

fita

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐍄𐌰

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪːta/

  Rhymes: -ɪːta

fita f (genitive singular fitu, no plural)

1. fat
2. fatness

• fitusækinn
• offita (“obesity”)

fita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitaði, supine fitað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to fatten, make fat

   Bændurnir fita dýrin.

   The farmers fatten the animals.

• fitna

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.tɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ta/, /ˈfi.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: fi‧ta

Uncertain. Likely from Latin vitta (“band, ribbon”).

fita f (plural fitas)

1. tape, ribbon, band
2. (colloquial) film, movie
3. (Portugal, education, slang) a colored ribbon to indicate membership of a faculty

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:fita.

• (film): filme, película

• fita-cola
• fita demo
• fita dentária
• fita magnética
• fita métrica

From Latin ficta.

fita f (plural fitas)

1. act, deception, lie

   É tudo fita!

   It's all an act!

   Deixem-se de fitas!

   Stop pretending!

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:fita.

fita

1. genitive singular of fit ( = fish)