wit

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Prep

Pronunciation spelling of with.

Conceitos

inteligência

agudez

agudeza

sagacidade

talento

humor

faculdade

graça

habilidade

espírito

cérebro

🧠

capacidade

bom senso

engraçadinho

farsante

astúcia

espírito humorístico

pessoa espirituosa

astucidade

Sinônimos

intellect

intelligence

wisdom

mind

humour

wittiness

sense

sharpness

cleverness

sagacity

brain

🧠

brightness

wag

witticism

talent

humor

ability

brainpower

joke

🤣

knowledge

acumen

understanding

humorist

capacity of mind

know

genius

brains

witty person

esprit

comic fellow

joker

witty

learning ability

witster

tact

smartness

subtlety

shrewdness

skill

repartee

reason

resourceful

humourist

punster

resourcefulness

card

mentality

mental capacity

wisecracker

ghost

👻

Traduções

Witz

🤣

arguzia

intelligence

inteligencia

spirito

ingenio

Verstand

Witzbold

ingegno

boegspriet

νους

llestesa

γνωρίζω

intel·ligència

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɪt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: wit

Herdado de inglês arcaico: witt

Cognato com holandês: weet

Cognato com alemão: Witz

Cognato com dinamarquês: vid

Cognato com sueco: vett

Cognato com bokmål norueguês: vett

Cognato com gótico: 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹

Cognato com latim: vīdī

Cognato com búlgaro: вям

Cognato com russo: ве́дать

Cognato com sânscrito: विद्या

Cognato com islandês: vita

Cognato com holandês: weten

Cognato com alemão: wissen

Cognato com dinamarquês: vide

Cognato com sueco: veta

Cognato com latim: videō

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 wit (“knowledge”), German Witz (“joke; wit, humour”), Danish vid (“wit”), Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish vett (“wit”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge, wisdom”). Compare wise.