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cíte

  • noun [ feminine ]
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cíte, an; f.
a hut, cabin, cottage
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  • Cétan

    gurgustione,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 110, 17.

  • Gecóm hé tó hyre cýtan (cf. Gr. D. 167, 6),

      Hml. Th. ii. 182, 26: 184, 7.

  • Settan Hierusalem samod anlícast swá hí æppelbearu áne cýtan

    posuerunt Hierusalem velut pomorum custodiam,

      Ps. Th. 78, 2.

  • Hé lét árǽran ealle ábútan ðá dúne his hyrdecnapan cýtan, ꝥ hí ðǽr gehende mid heora hláfordes yrfe lágon, and wið cyle and wið hǽton hí sylfe geburgon,

      Hml. S. 23, 418.
a cell of a monk, hermit, &c.
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  • Cýte, hulce (hulce ł céte, Hpt. Gl. 465, 45) tugurio .i.

    cella

    (the cell of John the hermit),
      An. Ox. 2515.

  • Sý þám untrumum gebróðrum synderlíce cýte (hús, cýte, R. Ben. I. 67, 17) geset and tó þám ánum betǽht

    fratribus infirmis sit cella super se deputata,

      R. Ben. 60, 20.

  • Þæs muneces cýte mid leóhte wearð áfylled,

      Hml. S. 31, 811.

  • Heó began faran tó ðæs foresǽdan wéstensetlan cýtan, and on þǽre cýtan duru cnocode,

      Hml. A. 196, 25.

  • Hé eóde on þá cétan þǽr se líchoma wæs,

      Bl. H. 217, 25: 219, 14.

  • Se geatweard sceal cýtan (hús

    cellam,

      R. Ben. I. 112, 7)

  • habban wið þæt geat,

      R. Ben. 126, 18.

  • Gangende in þá cýtan (cellam) Benedictes,

      Gr. D. 140, 10.
in a local name, Cétwudu Chetwood,
    C. D. i. 292, 20.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. chete.]
Similar entries
v. cete, cyte (l. céte, cýte) in Dict.
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v.  céte.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cíte.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/41773.

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