obit

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒbɪt/, /ˈəʊbɪt/

obit (plural obits)

1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th-17th c.]
2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:

     Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]

Shortened from obituary.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊbɪt/, /əˈbɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

obit (plural obits)

1. (colloquial) An obituary.

• B. I. O. T., biot

obit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of obeō