Etymology

biter

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Today it means: A fish that tends to take bait. Full definition →

Middle English biter
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biter · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited frombiter
  2. English todaybiter

From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).

biter · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Proto-Italic*dwis
  5. Proto-Italic*dwiznos
  6. Latinbīnus
  7. Late Latinbīnāriu
  8. Middle Englishbinarie
  9. Englishbinary
  10. Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-der.?
  11. Latindigitus
  12. Middle Englishdigit
  13. Englishdigit
  14. Englishbinary digitabbr.
  15. Englishbitinflu.
  16. Englishbit
  17. English todaybiter

From bit + -er.

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