peita

• Rhymes: -ejtɐ, -ɐjtɐ
• Hyphenation: pei‧ta

From Latin pāctus.

peita f (plural peitas)

1. (Brazil, slang) T-shirt
2. gift or promise for the purpose of bribing; bribery
3. (historical) tribute paid by those who were not nobles

peita f (plural peitas)

1. diminutive of peia

peita

1. inflection of peitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From earlier paita < *piata, from Proto-Oceanic *puia ta (“the good one”), from *puia (“good”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pia.

• IPA^(key): /peita/

peita

1. good

   Synonym: paita

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 369