topit

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian topiti (“to melt (down)”).

topit (aorist topita, participle topitur)

1. to make blunt, wear out, hold back

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtopɪt]
• Rhymes: -opɪt
• Hyphenation: to‧pit

Inherited from Old Czech topiti, from Proto-Slavic *topiti (“to heat”), causative of Proto-Slavic *tepti (descendants include teplý).

topit impf

1. (intransitive) to stoke

   Řežu dříví na polínka, ať má čím topit maminka. ― I cut the wood into logs, so that my mother has something to stoke.

2. (intransitive) to heat up, to burn, to use for heating

   Právě začali topit. ― They have just started heating.

3. (intransitive) to give off heat

Inherited from Old Czech topiti, from Proto-Slavic *topiti (“to drown”).

topit impf

1. (transitive) to drown, to kill in liquid
2. (reflexive with se) to be drowning

• topiti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• topiti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• topit in Internetová jazyková příručka

Past participle of topi.

• IPA^(key): [toˈpit]

topit m or n (feminine singular topită, masculine plural topiți, feminine and neuter plural topite)

1. melted

topit

1. past participle of topi