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čítať

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːtac/

“čítať” is a Slovak word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to read (to look at and interpret something that is written)
  2. to read (to perceive by touch the meaning of the characters of a dot font)
  3. to read (to ascertain from a person's external expressions)
  4. to interpret, to construe, to read (to perceive and interpret something in some way)
  5. to read, to interpret (of a machine: capture various impulses, signs, codes, etc., analyse and process them)
  6. to tell fortunes, to predict (the guess the fates of life according to certain signs)
  7. to count, to calculate

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čitati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)keit-, *(s)kait- (compare Lithuanian skaitýti), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeyt-.

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