wit
Signification (English)
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- Sanity.
- (obsolete) The senses.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Concepts
mot d’esprit
petit malin
eutrapélie
c’est-à-dire
Synonyms
ability
capacity of mind
comic fellow
learning ability
mental capacity
witster
witty person
witty
reasoning power
witty remark
intelligent person
thinking power
witty fellow/person
wittcism
witty fellow
eutrapelia
comical fellow
funny fellow
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/wɪt/
Etymology (English)
In summary
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.
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