Noun: spijt
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Tot mijn grote spijt (To my great regret)
Nouns inflected like spijt
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch despijt, from Old French despit (from which also English despite), from Latin despectus (“looking down on”).
2. The first syllable de- was later rebracketed and interpreted as a definite article ("de spijt") and was then dropped. See: Latin Nouns '
despectus'.
Verbs referencing "spijt"
English Nouns
spite.
Translations