dight
/daɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…]."
- "[…]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight."
- "[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite."
- "Come, Colin, dight your cheeks and baniſh care"
- "[…]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]"
- "Do thou dight thee a twenty-banked ship right good"
Etymology
From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dighten, dihtan, *dihtōn, *dīkaną, *dʰeyǵ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /daɪt/
- British English: /daɪt/