lit

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Translingual

Symbol

lit

1. ISO 639-1 code 2&3, ISO 639-3 code lt (SIL)

English

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈlɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rime: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier light, from Srednji Engleski lighte, from Stari Engleski līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”)) by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).

Verb

lit

1. simple past and past [[Dodatak:Rečnik#participle|participle]] of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
2. simple past and past [[Dodatak:Rečnik#participle|participle]] of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
   • 1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87:

     […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.

Verb

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (US, dialectal) To run or light (alight).
   • 1988 april 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!

Adjective

lit (comparative more lit, superlative most lit)

1. Illuminated.

   Sinonimi: lighted, luminous, Thesaurus:illuminated, Thesaurus:shining

   He walked down the lit corridor.

2. (slang) Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

   Sinonimi: stoned, Thesaurus:stoned, Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1932, Hart Crane, letter, 16 February:

     True to my word last night, I got very lit.

3. (slang, usually of a female) Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.

   Sinonim: Thesaurus:randy

4. (slang) Exciting, captivating; fun.
   • 2017 November, Justin Allec, Adrian Lysenko, Kirsti Salmi, “Sounds of the City: Part VI”, in The Walleye, page 8:

     DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?

   • 2018 jul 4, James Courtney, “Music Picks”, in San Antonio Current, page 39:

     If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit.

   • 2018 decembar 27, Shan Kekahuna, “Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!”, in MauiTime, page 17:

     New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be lit.

   This party is gonna be lit.

5. (slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.

   Sinonim: Thesaurus:excellent

   • 2017 jun 8, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in Dundrum Gazette, page 18:

     […] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.

   • 2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019:

     At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.

   • 2019 October, Alice Ridley, “Letter from the Editor”, in Connect Magazine, page 4:

     The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.

   Those jeans are lit.

Derived terms

• dim-lit
• fairy-lit
• gaslit, gas-lit
• half lit
• illlit, ill-lit
• litty
• lit up
• moon-lilit
• oil-lit
• strip-lit
• well-lit

 

Translations

Lighted

• Czech: osvětlený (cs)
• Danish: tændt
• Finnish: valaistu (fi)
• French: allumé (fr)
• German: beleuchtet (de), angezündet (de)
• Italian: acceso (it)
• Macedonian: ósvetlen (ósvetlen)
• Portuguese: aceso (pt), iluminado (pt)
• Russian: osveщёnnый (ru) (osveščónnyj)
• Sicilian: aḍḍumatu m
• Spanish: encendido (es), alumbrado (es), iluminado (es), aluzado (es)

Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned

• Finnish: päihtynyt (fi)
• Macedonian: nápušen (nápušen), náduvan (náduvan)
• Sicilian: ntrunatu (scn) m, stunatu m
• Spanish: viajado (es) m, pasado (es) m, drogado (es) m, pedo (es), volado (es), puesto (es) m

slang: excellent, cool

• Afrikaans: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Albanian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Bulgarian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Catalan: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Czech: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Danish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Dutch: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Finnish: tyylikäs (fi)
• French: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• German: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Hebrew: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Hindi: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Hungarian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Icelandic: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Indonesian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Italian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Japanese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Kazakh: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Korean: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Lithuanian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Macedonian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Malay: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Norwegian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Polish: fajny (pl)
• Portuguese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Romanian: blană (ro), beton (ro)
• Russian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

  Latin: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

• Slovak: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Slovene: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Spanish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Swedish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Tagalog: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Turkish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Ukrainian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Vietnamese: bốc (vi)

Etymology 2

From Srednji Engleski lit, lut, from Stari Engleski lȳt (“little, few”), from Pra-Germanski *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.

Adjective

lit (comparative litter or more lit, superlative littest or most lit)

1. (obsolete) Little.

Noun

lit (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Little.

Related terms

• lite

Etymology 3

From Srednji Engleski lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Pra-Germanski *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Stari Engleski wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Stari Engleski wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).

Noun

lit (uncountable)

1. (UK dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.

Derived terms

• lithouse, lit-house
• litmus

Etymology 4

From Srednji Engleski litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.

Verb

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (transitive) To colour; dye.

Etymology 5

Short for literature.

Noun

lit (uncountable)

1. Clipping of literature.

   Do we have any lit homework tonight?

Derived terms

• alt-lit
• chick lit
• comput lit
• dick lit
• frat lit
• lad lit
• lit crit
• litfan
• misery lit
• mis lit
• quit lit
• sick lit
• vid lit

 

See also

• wagon-lit (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• 'til, TIL, TLI, til ^{(alphagram ilt)}

Czech

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): [ˈlɪt]

Participle

lit

1. masculine singular passive [[Dodatak:Rečnik#participle|participle]] of lít

Faroese

Etymology

From the verb líta (‘to view’).

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): [liːt]

Noun

lit n (genitive singular lits, uncountable)

1. short wink, view, look

Synonyms

• eygnabrá (wink)

Derived terms

• andlit (face)
• álit (trust)
• eftirlit (control)
• fyrilit (caution)
• innlit (insight)
• útlit (outlook)
• yvirlit (overview, summary)

French

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /li/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: lie, lient, lies, lis, lits

Etymology 1

Nasleđeno od Stari Francuski lit, from Latinski lectus.

Noun

lit m (plural lits)

1. bed

   Sinonim: (colloquial) plumard

   Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit. ― Where is he? He's sleeping in his bed.

Derived terms

• aller au lit
• au lit
• cloué au lit
• comme on fait son lit on se couche
• faire le lit
• femme qui rit, à moitié dans son lit
• femme qui rit, à moitié dans ton lit
• lit à baldaquin
• lit de camp
• lit de justice
• lit de mort
• lit de sangle
• lit pliant
• lit superposé
• mouiller son lit
• punaise des lits

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lit

1. third-person singular present indicative of lire

   Jean lit très souvent. ― Jean reads very often.

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Noun

lit

1. [[Dodatak:Rečnik#indefinite|indefinite]] accusative/dative singular of litur

Lashi

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /lit/

Noun

lit

1. air

References

• Šablon:R:lsi:Luk:2017

Middle English

Noun

lit

1. Alternative form of light

Norman

Noun

lit m (plural lits)

1. Alternative form of llit (“bed”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /liːt/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

1. trust

   Eg set min lit til Gud.

   I put my trust in God.

Etymology 2

Verb

lit

1. present [[Dodatak:Rečnik#tense|tense]] of lite
2. imperative of lite

Etymology 3

Noun

lìt m (definite singular lìten, indefinite plural lìter or lìtir, definite plural lìterne or lìtine)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by let

References

• Šablon:R:ND

Anagrams

• ilt, til ^{(alphagram ilt)}

Old French

Etymology

From Latinski lectus.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /lit/

Noun

lit m (oblique plural liz or litz, nominative singular liz or litz, nominative plural lit)

1. bed

Descendants

• Bourguignon: leit
• Francuski: lit
• Norman: liet

Old Norse

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /lit/

Noun

lit n

1. vision
2. sight

Related terms

• líta (“to see”)

References

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.

Anagrams

• til

Polish

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /lit/

• Audio:

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• Rime: -it
• Syllabification: lit
• Homophone: lead

Etymology 1

Pozajmljeno od New Latin lithium, from Antički Grčki λίθος (líthos).

Noun

Hemijski element
Li
Prethodni: hel (He)
Sledeći: beryl (Be)

lit m inan

1. lithium
2. (informal) lithium carbonate Galicijski

Declension

declension of lit

	singular
nominative	lit
genitive	litu
dative	litowi
accusative	lit
instrumental	litem
locative	licie
vocative	licie

Etymology 2

Pozajmljeno od Lithuanian litas.

Noun

lit ?

1. (historical) litas Galicijski

Further reading

• lit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lit f

1. genitive singular of lite

Sumbawa

Noun

lit

1. sea

Swedish

Noun

lit c

1. trust

Synonyms

• tillit

See also

• lita

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Nemački Licht and Engleski light.

Noun

lit (nominative plural lits)

1. light
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: V:

     Binols lit vola. Zif, kel topon löpo su bel, no kanon binön klänedik.

     You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden.

2. illumination

Declension

declension of lit

	singular	plural
nominative	lit	lits
genitive	lita	litas
dative	lite	lites
accusative	liti	litis
predicative	litu	litus
vocative	o lit!	o lits!

Zay

Noun

lit

1. tree-bark

References

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind