Indite means to make up, compose, or put into writing. The word shares Latin roots with "indict" and means "to make known formally."
Indite bedeutet, etwas zu erfinden, zu komponieren oder schriftlich festzuhalten. Das Wort hat gemeinsame lateinische Wurzeln mit "indict" und bedeutet "formal bekannt machen".
| Front | indite \in-DYTE\ |
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| Back | verb 1. Make up, compose. 2. To give literary or formal expression to. 3. To put down in writing. ["Indite" looks like a misspelling of its homophone "indict," meaning "to charge with a crime," and that's no mere coincidence. Although the two verbs are distinct in current use, they are in fact related etymologically. "Indite" is the older of the two; it has been in the language since the 1300s. "Indict," which came about as an alteration of "indite," first appeared in English legal use around 1600. Ultimately, both terms come from the Latin "indicere," meaning "to make known formally" or "to proclaim," which in turn comes from "in-" plus "dicere," meaning "to say."] "The things he writes or I indite, we praise-- For poets, after all, are lonely men Singing a bit to themselves, but more to each other-- Hoping that fellow there will recognize A bit of himself in this pale groping brother." Alfred Kreymborg; The Lost Sail: A Cape Cod Diary; Coward-McCann, Inc.; 1928. "In 1844, Sir Charles Napier, governor of Sind, was writing from Kurrachee, as he spelled it, urging his officials to indite their papers in English, larded with as small a portion of to him unknown tongues as they conveniently can, instead of those he generally receives-namely Hindostanee larded with occasional words in English." - A Plain Man's Appeal For Finds; The Economist (London); Nov 29, 1997. |
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