indict

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• UK, US: /ɪnˈdaɪt/
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• homophone: indite
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• rhymes with -aɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N D AY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English enditen, endyten (“to accuse”), from Old French enditer (“to dictate, indite”), from Late Latin indictāre, frequentative of Latin indicere (“to proclaim”), from in- + dicere (“to say”), or from in- + dictāre (“to say often, to dictate”). Doublet of indite. The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dictāre (but see dight). The borrowed /iː/ regularly shifted to /aɪ/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the ⟨c⟩ represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: acusar — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Chinese Mandarin: 控告 (kònggào) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Czech: obvinit — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Czech: obviňovat — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Dutch: beschuldigen — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Esperanto: akuzi — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Finnish: syyttää — to accuse of wrongdoing
• French: accuser — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Galician: acusar — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Georgian: ადანაშაულებს (adanašaulebs) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Georgian: დაადანაშაულებს (daadanašaulebs) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• German: beschuldigen — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Hungarian: vádol — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Italian: accusare — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Latin: accuso — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Persian: متهم کردن (mottaham kardan) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Polish: oskarżyć — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Polish: oskarżać — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Portuguese: acusar — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Russian: обвиня́ть (obvinjátʹ) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Russian: обвини́ть (obvinítʹ) — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Serbo-Croatian: optužiti — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Swedish: beskylla — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Swedish: anklaga — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Swedish: angripa — to accuse of wrongdoing
• Bulgarian: предявявам обвинение (predjavjavam obvinenie) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Catalan: inculpar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Chinese Mandarin: 起訴 /起诉 (qǐsù) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Czech: obžalovat — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Czech: obvinit — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Dutch: aanklagen — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Finnish: syyttää — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• French: inculper — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Galician: acusar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Galician: inculpar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Georgian: ბრალს უყენებს (brals uq̇enebs) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Georgian: ბრალს წაუყენებს (brals c̣auq̇enebs) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Georgian: ბრალს სდებს (brals sdebs) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Georgian: ბრალს დასდებს (brals dasdebs) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• German: anklagen — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• German: beschuldigen — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Hungarian: vádat emel — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Hungarian: megvádol — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Irish: díotáil — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Italian: incriminare — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Japanese: 起訴する (kiso suru) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Korean: 기소하다 (gisohada) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Latin: crīminō — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Portuguese: acusar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Portuguese: indiciar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Russian: обвиня́ть (obvinjátʹ) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Russian: обвини́ть (obvinítʹ) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Russian: осужда́ть (osuždátʹ) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Russian: осуди́ть (osudítʹ) — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Spanish: sindicar — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Swedish: åtala — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Welsh: cyhuddo — to make a formal accusation or indictment
• Welsh: ditio — to make a formal accusation or indictment