pitan.

Brit.

/ˈpiːtə/, U.S.

/ˈpidə/

Forms: 1600s peet, 1600s– pita, 1700s–1800s pito, 1800s pittee.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pita.

Etymology: < Spanish pita a type of fibre used in Central and South America (a1561), a fibre-yielding plant (1601), Agave americana (a1789 or earlier); further etymology uncertain (perhaps < Taino: compare pitahaya n.). Compare French pite (a1603 as pitte in fil de pitte), Portuguese pita (1616 as pitta).Quechua pita, glossed in D. González Holguín Vocab. de la lengua Qquichua(1608) as ‘fine thread to make points’ is thought to be a loanword from an Antillean language, probably Taino.

1. The fibre obtained from any of various Central and South American plants, chiefly agaves and the bromeliad Aechmea magdalenae; a rope made from such fibre.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre

palmite1555

coir1582

pita1648

kitul1681

silk-cotton1697

pita-thread1748

abaca1751

khus khus1798

gomuti1811

coco fibre1813

Manila hemp1814

pineapple fibre1834

moog1840

piassava1841

Para grass1850

raffia1850

African hair1851

ambari1851

diss1855

munj1855

monkey grass1858

crin vegetal1859

mung1866

lauhala1880

bass?1881

raphia bast1882

istle1883

raphia grass1885

settler's twine1898

tucum1901

Manila fibre1921

bassine1923

sotol1942

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 193 A kind of thred called Pita, which is a very rich Commodity in Spain, especially of that colour wherewith it is dyed in these parts.., which is a purple colour.

1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 46 From them they draw the Thread call'd Pita.

1852 W. L. Cazneau Eagle Pass 56 A coarse bag, made of woven grass or the all-useful pita of the country..is what you will find in a Camanche camp.

1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac (1861) 88 There are two kinds of aloe-fibre; one coarse, ichtli, the other much finer, pito.

1916 E. V. Wilcox Trop. Agric. 172 The former [sc. Agave americana] produces a fiber known as pita or aloes fiber.

1932 H. W. Bentley Dict. Spanish Terms 182 The pita fiber when twisted into a rope makes a very strong and hard cord known as a pita or a maguey.

1998 Ethnohistory 45 502 Many Native Americans were forced to pay tribute in the form of cotton garments and rope fiber (pita).

2. Any of these fibre-yielding plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Amaryllidaceae > [noun] > types of

maguey1555

melt1605

pancratium1664

aloe1665

pita1698

mescal1709

maypole1750

agave1760

poison bulb1776

kukumakranka1793

furcraea1821

zephyranthes1821

century plant1827

mescal button1887

tequila plant1979

1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 129 The Peet is an Herb that can be peeled in the same manner, as Hemp with us, and whose threads are stronger and finer than Silk.

1759 tr. M. Venegas Nat. & Civil Hist. Calif. I. 44 One species of them called pita, supplies the Indians with thread for making their nets and other uses.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 137 A veil made of the fine web of the pita.

1874 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 44 282 There are also many members of the families Fourcroya and Agave (locally called ‘Pita’).

1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages Past & Present II. viii. 214 From the pita, a species of agave, is extracted by distillation Piteria, a drink which only those accustomed to it can use with impunity.

1945 A. Dugand in F. Verdoorn Plants & Plant Sci. in Lat. Amer. ii. 292/2 Large areas of humid forest-floor are densely covered with pita (Aechmea magdalenae (André) André), the leaves of which produce one of the best and toughest fibers known.

1971 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 51 311 Chinandega had become the principal settlement of the region with some 400 houses hidden among the trees, their yards fenced with pita, which yielded cabuya fiber.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as pita-fibre, pita-flax, pita-thread, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre

palmite1555

coir1582

pita1648

kitul1681

silk-cotton1697

pita-thread1748

abaca1751

khus khus1798

gomuti1811

coco fibre1813

Manila hemp1814

pineapple fibre1834

moog1840

piassava1841

Para grass1850

raffia1850

African hair1851

ambari1851

diss1855

munj1855

monkey grass1858

crin vegetal1859

mung1866

lauhala1880

bass?1881

raphia bast1882

istle1883

raphia grass1885

settler's twine1898

tucum1901

Manila fibre1921

bassine1923

sotol1942

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 177 Pito thread.

1854 Times 18 Apr. 9/2 In the white-fibred plants, such as the bowstring hemp, the aloe, the pita-fibre, the pineapple, and, above all, the plantain, we had boundless resources not only for paper making, but for cordage.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 898/1 Pita-fibre and Pita-thread are..the fibre, called also Aloe-fibre, obtained from the leaves of the larger Agaves.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 85/2 Pita flax [is procured] from Agave americana.

1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 12 My people give them axes and knives and trinkets, and they give us cotton and hammocks and pita hemp.

1963 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 507 Efforts to encourage the use of pita-hemp seem to have been rewarded when Santiago Ruiz succeeded in making ‘several yards’ of ‘perfect cloth.’

1998 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 July 1 Agave also can be used to manufacture pita flax and sisal and can be cut up for cattle feed.

C2.

pita wood n. rare the fibrous stems of Furcraea foetida (family Agavaceae).

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. Pita-wood, the pith-like wood of Furcrœa (Fourcroya) gigantea, used sometimes in Rio Janeiro as a slow-match, and sometimes to line drawers for holding insects.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pita
释义	pitan. Brit. /ˈpiːtə/, U.S. /ˈpidə/ Forms: 1600s peet, 1600s– pita, 1700s–1800s pito, 1800s pittee. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pita. Etymology: < Spanish pita a type of fibre used in Central and South America (a1561), a fibre-yielding plant (1601), Agave americana (a1789 or earlier); further etymology uncertain (perhaps < Taino: compare pitahaya n.). Compare French pite (a1603 as pitte in fil de pitte), Portuguese pita (1616 as pitta).Quechua pita, glossed in D. González Holguín Vocab. de la lengua Qquichua(1608) as ‘fine thread to make points’ is thought to be a loanword from an Antillean language, probably Taino. 1. The fibre obtained from any of various Central and South American plants, chiefly agaves and the bromeliad Aechmea magdalenae; a rope made from such fibre. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 193 A kind of thred called Pita, which is a very rich Commodity in Spain, especially of that colour wherewith it is dyed in these parts.., which is a purple colour. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 46 From them they draw the Thread call'd Pita. 1852 W. L. Cazneau Eagle Pass 56 A coarse bag, made of woven grass or the all-useful pita of the country..is what you will find in a Camanche camp. 1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac (1861) 88 There are two kinds of aloe-fibre; one coarse, ichtli, the other much finer, pito. 1916 E. V. Wilcox Trop. Agric. 172 The former [sc. Agave americana] produces a fiber known as pita or aloes fiber. 1932 H. W. Bentley Dict. Spanish Terms 182 The pita fiber when twisted into a rope makes a very strong and hard cord known as a pita or a maguey. 1998 Ethnohistory 45 502 Many Native Americans were forced to pay tribute in the form of cotton garments and rope fiber (pita). 2. Any of these fibre-yielding plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Amaryllidaceae > [noun] > types of maguey1555 melt1605 pancratium1664 aloe1665 pita1698 mescal1709 maypole1750 agave1760 poison bulb1776 kukumakranka1793 furcraea1821 zephyranthes1821 century plant1827 mescal button1887 tequila plant1979 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 129 The Peet is an Herb that can be peeled in the same manner, as Hemp with us, and whose threads are stronger and finer than Silk. 1759 tr. M. Venegas Nat. & Civil Hist. Calif. I. 44 One species of them called pita, supplies the Indians with thread for making their nets and other uses. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 137 A veil made of the fine web of the pita. 1874 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 44 282 There are also many members of the families Fourcroya and Agave (locally called ‘Pita’). 1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages Past & Present II. viii. 214 From the pita, a species of agave, is extracted by distillation Piteria, a drink which only those accustomed to it can use with impunity. 1945 A. Dugand in F. Verdoorn Plants & Plant Sci. in Lat. Amer. ii. 292/2 Large areas of humid forest-floor are densely covered with pita (Aechmea magdalenae (André) André), the leaves of which produce one of the best and toughest fibers known. 1971 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 51 311 Chinandega had become the principal settlement of the region with some 400 houses hidden among the trees, their yards fenced with pita, which yielded cabuya fiber. Compounds C1. General attributive, as pita-fibre, pita-flax, pita-thread, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 177 Pito thread. 1854 Times 18 Apr. 9/2 In the white-fibred plants, such as the bowstring hemp, the aloe, the pita-fibre, the pineapple, and, above all, the plantain, we had boundless resources not only for paper making, but for cordage. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 898/1 Pita-fibre and Pita-thread are..the fibre, called also Aloe-fibre, obtained from the leaves of the larger Agaves. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 85/2 Pita flax [is procured] from Agave americana. 1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 12 My people give them axes and knives and trinkets, and they give us cotton and hammocks and pita hemp. 1963 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 507 Efforts to encourage the use of pita-hemp seem to have been rewarded when Santiago Ruiz succeeded in making ‘several yards’ of ‘perfect cloth.’ 1998 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 July 1 Agave also can be used to manufacture pita flax and sisal and can be cut up for cattle feed. C2. pita wood n. rare the fibrous stems of Furcraea foetida (family Agavaceae). ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pita-wood, the pith-like wood of Furcrœa (Fourcroya) gigantea, used sometimes in Rio Janeiro as a slow-match, and sometimes to line drawers for holding insects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : pittapitan.² < n.1648 see also
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