cite

• enPR: sīt, IPA^(key): /saɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: sight, site

From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”).

cite (third-person singular simple present cites, present participle citing, simple past and past participle cited)

1. to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

2. to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
3. to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

Loosely, or for brevity in journalism, the word is used to mean no more than "mention". [an extension of sense 1]

• cital

• citation

• attest
• quote

From the first syllable of citation. Analogous to quote, from quotation.

cite (plural cites)

1. (informal) a citation

   We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

• cite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “cite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• cite at OneLook Dictionary Search

• -etic, CETI, EITC, Tice, etic, tice

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪtɛ]

cite

1. vocative singular of cit

• IPA^(key): /sit/

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• Homophones: citent, cites, scythe, Scythe, scythes, Scythes, site, sites

cite

1. inflection of citer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

cite

1. vocative masculine singular of citus

• “cite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• cete, cetee, cetie, cety, citee, citie, citty, city, cyte, cyty, sete, scite, site, syte, syty

Borrowed from Old French cité, citet, from Latin civitās.

• IPA^(key): /siˈteː/, /ˈsiteː/

cite (plural cites)

1. A city (settlement larger than a town)

   Coordinate term: toun

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Luke 8:1, page 32r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     And it was doon aftirward · ⁊ [iheſus] made iourneis bi citees ⁊ caſtelis, [pꝛe]ch[in]ge ⁊ euangelizynge þe rewme of god / ⁊ twelue wiþ h[im] ·

     After that happened, Jesus made visits to cities and fortresses, preaching about and disseminating the kingdom of God with the Twelve alongside him.

2. (religion) A stronghold or fortress.
3. (rare) The people of a city.

• English: city (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: ceety

• “citẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

cite

1. inflection of citar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθite/ [ˈθi.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsite/ [ˈsi.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ite
• Syllabification: ci‧te

cite

1. inflection of citar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative