wit

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Sanity.
2. (obsolete) The senses.
3. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
4. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
5. Intelligence; common sense.
6. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
7. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Verb

Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).

Prep

Pronunciation spelling of with.

Conceptos

ingenio

inteligencia

agudeza

gracia

mentalidad

humor

bufón

histrión

chistoso

habilidad

sal

persona ingeniosa

capacidad de aprendizaje

capacidad mental

cerebro

poder mental

divertido

imaginativo

chiste

mordacidad

intelecto

intelectualidad

cordura

bromista

dicharachero

aptitud

capacidad

mente

tienta

astucia

perspicacia

sagacidad

donaire

juicio

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English wit, from Old English witt (“understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge, reason”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).
Cognate with Dutch weet, German Witz, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Norwegian Bokmål vett, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), Bulgarian вям (vjam), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ), Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā). Compare wise.