parasita

See also: parasitá

Catalan

Verb

parasita

1. inflection of parasitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

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• Homophones: parasitas, parasitât

Verb

parasita

1. third-person singular past historic of parasiter

Galician

Verb

parasita

1. inflection of parasitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

See parasītus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈsiː.ta/, [päräˈs̠iːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈsi.ta/, [päräˈs̬iːt̪ä]

Noun

parasīta f (genitive parasītae, masculine parasītus); first declension

1. (female) parasite

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	parasīta	parasītae
Genitive	parasītae	parasītārum
Dative	parasītae	parasītīs
Accusative	parasītam	parasītās
Ablative	parasītā	parasītīs
Vocative	parasīta	parasītae

References

• “parasita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parasita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parasita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Occitan

Adjective

parasita

1. feminine singular of parasit

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈzi.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈzi.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈzi.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾɐˈzi.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧si‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).

Noun

parasita m or f by sense (plural parasitas)

1. parasite

Derived terms

• parasitar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

parasita

1. inflection of parasitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “parasita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾaˈsita/ [pa.ɾaˈsi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: pa‧ra‧si‧ta

Verb

parasita

1. inflection of parasitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative