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Added 7 October 2026

wit

/wɪt/ symbol

In Latin: ingenium Wiktionary

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Former ISO 639-3 language code for Wintu.

noun

The senses.
Keep your wits about you.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.

verb

To know, be aware of .
You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.

preposition

Pronunciation spelling of with.

Origin

From Middle English wit, witt, wyt, from Old English witt (“mind, sanity, sense, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge; reason; wit”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”).

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