witer

See also: Witer

Cebuano

Etymology

From English waiter. Replaced by weyter.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: wi‧ter

Noun

witer (feminine witres)

(dated) a waiter; a male attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:witer.

Old English

Alternative forms

witter

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witraz. Cognate with Old Norse vitr (“wise”).

Adjective

witer

knowing, wise

Derived terms

witran (“to inform”)

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “witter”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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