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8-letter words (3 found)

ASPIRATE,PARASITE,SEPTARIA,

7-letter words (15 found)

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6-letter words (57 found)

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5-letter words (137 found)

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4-letter words (127 found)

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3-letter words (73 found)

AAS,AIA,AIR,AIS,AIT,APE,APT,ARE,ARS,ART,ASP,ATE,ATS,EAR,EAS,EAT,ERA,ERS,EST,ETA,IRE,ITA,ITS,PAR,PAS,PAT,PEA,PER,PES,PET,PIA,PIE,PIR,PIS,PIT,PRE,PSI,PST,RAI,RAP,RAS,RAT,REI,REP,RES,RET,RIA,RIP,RIT,SAE,SAI,SAP,SAR,SAT,SEA,SEI,SER,SET,SIP,SIR,SIT,SPA,SRI,TAE,TAI,TAP,TAR,TAS,TEA,TES,TIE,TIP,TIS,

2-letter words (21 found)

AA,AE,AI,AR,AS,AT,EA,ER,ES,ET,IS,IT,PA,PE,PI,RE,SI,ST,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 434 words from parasite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of parasite

parasite

Etymology

From Middle French parasite, from Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”), from noun use of adjective meaning "feeding beside", from παρά (pará, “beside”) + σῖτος (sîtos, “food”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/, /ˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/
  • Hyphenation: par‧a‧site
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Noun

parasite (plural parasites)

  1. (derogatory) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger
  2. (derogatory) A sycophant or hanger-on.
  3. (biology) An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
  4. (literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc. [from 19th c.]
  5. (historical) A retainer or companion of an ancient Celtic warrior, who praised him in song or poetry at gatherings; a bard.
  6. (aviation) A component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air-launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier; a parasite aircraft.

Antonyms

  • commensal (doing no noticeable harm)
  • mutualist or sometimes symbiote (beneficial)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • symbiont
  • obligate
  • facultative

Verb

parasite (third-person singular simple present parasites, present participle parasiting, simple past and past participle parasited)

  1. (rare) To parasitize.

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “parasite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • aspirate, pastiera, septaria

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.ʁa.zit/
  • Homophones: parasitent, parasites

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin parasītus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos).

Noun

parasite m (plural parasites)

  1. parasite
  2. (electronics, in the plural) radio interference

Adjective

parasite (plural parasites)

  1. parasitic
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Romanian: parazit
  • → Turkish: parazit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

parasite

  1. inflection of parasiter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “parasite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

parasite

  1. inflection of parasitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Noun

parasīte

  1. vocative singular of parasītus

Portuguese

Verb

parasite

  1. inflection of parasitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

parasite

  1. inflection of parasitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org