obit

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (going down; death), from obīre (to go down, to die).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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obit (plural obits)

  1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th–17th c.]
  2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 582:
      Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
  3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of obituary.

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Noun

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obit (plural obits)

  1. (colloquial) An obituary.
    • 2010 December 9, Roy Greenslade, “Don't laugh - new TV show is set on a newspaper obits desk”, in The Guardian[1]:
      So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin obitus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔ.bit/
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Noun

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obit m (plural obits)

  1. (archaic) death
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Latin

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Verb

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obit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of obeō