subit

Borrowed from Latin subitus.

• IPA^(key): /sy.bi/

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• Rhymes: -i

subit (feminine 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:

     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.

• mort subite
• subitement

• Haitian Creole: sibit

subit

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

• “subit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

subit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of subeō

Borrowed from French subit, Latin subitus.

subit

1. sudden, unexpected

   Synonyms: neprevăzut, neașteptat