Obit

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɒbɪt/, /ˈəʊbɪt/

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus ("going down; death"), from obīre ("to go down, to die").

Full definition of obit

Noun

1. (obsolete) Death of a person. 14th-17th c.
2. (Christianity, now historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. from 14th c.
• 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
3. A record of a person's death. from 15th c.

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈəʊbɪt/, /əˈbɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Shortened from obituary.

Noun

1. (colloquial) An obituary.

Anagrams

• biot , B. I. O. T.