wite

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Blame; responsibility; guilt.
    — Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
  2. Punishment; penalty; fine; bote; mulct.
动词 v.
  1. To regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
    — [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.
  2. To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish. poetic
  3. To censure (someone); to mulct; to reproach.
    — [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
  4. To guard (something); to keep; to observe, preserve, or protect.

词形变化

wites present,singular,third-person witing participle,present wited participle,past wited past wyte alternative wites plural wites present,singular,third-person witing participle,present wited participle,past wited past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.
词源 2
From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
词源 3
From Middle English witen, from Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
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