subit

Borrowed from Latin subitus.

• IPA^(key): /sy.bi/

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• Rhymes: -i

subit (feminine singular subite, masculine plural subits, feminine plural subites)

1. sudden
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:

     Mais ils eurent plus de peine encore à calmer l’hôte, désespéré de la mort subite de ses outres.

     But they had even more difficulty in calming the host, despairing at the sudden death of his wine skins.

• subitement

subit

1. third-person singular present indicative of subir
2. third-person singular past historic of subir

• “subit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

subit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of subeō

Borrowed from French subit, Latin subito.

subit

1. sudden, unexpected

• neprevăzut, neașteptat