Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice. · Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart. · To be angry at; to hate. · To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also North Frisian spīt, spīd (“regret”), Saterland Frisian Spiet (“regret, remorse”), West Frisian spyt (“regret”), Dutch spijt (“regret, remorse”), German Low German Spiet (“anger, regret, remorse”), German Spiet (“annoyance, vexation”), Swedish spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”), Norwegian spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”).
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- Root classification mention*speḱ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionspitenm
- Derivation mentiondespitfro
- Derivation mentiondēspectumla · looking down on
- Derivation mentiondēspiciōla · to look down, despise
- Cognate mentionspītfrr
- Cognate mentionSpietstq · regret, remorse
- Cognate mentionspytfy · regret
- Cognate mentionspijtnl · regret, remorse
- Cognate mentionSpietde · annoyance, vexation
- Cognate mentionspitsv · insult, outrage, annoyance
- Cognate mentionspitno · insult, outrage, annoyance
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