From en.wiktionary.org:
[spíte]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [spīt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], a shortening of [enm] (whence [en]), from [en], from [en],
from [en]. Compare also [nl] and [de].
**** Noun
[-]
1. 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
2. * [act=III]
3. * {{ RQ:Orwell Animal Farm | 7
|passage=Out of SPITE, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was
Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down
because the walls were too thin.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Emivita | title=By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil
|passage=sex with older men was a way to both internalize my SPITE towards my
mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.}}
1. [en] Vexation ; chagrin ; mortification .
2. * [act=I]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[ill-will or hatred toward another; a desire to vex or injure]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mari:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[vexation, chagrin, mortification]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To treat malicious ly; to try to hurt or thwart .
2. [en] To be angry at; to hate .
3. * {{ RQ:Fuller Church History
|passage=The Danes, then [...] pagans, principally SPITED places of
religion.}}
1. [en] To fill with spite; to offend ; to vex .
2. * [part=3]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to treat maliciously]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to be angry at; to hate]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- German: [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to fill with spite]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
[en]
**** Preposition
[en-prep]
1. Notwithstanding ; despite .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Esperanto
*** Etymology
From [eo].
*** Pronunciation
[eo-IPA]
*** Adverb
[eo-head]
1. in spite of
2. defiantly
**** Usage notes
Often used with the accusative or with the preposition [eo].
**** Derived terms
- [eo]
- [eo]
** Old English
*** Pronunciation
- [spite]
*** Noun
[ang]
1. [ang]
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
[pl-pr]
*** Adjective
[pl]
1. [pl]