mita
/ˈmiːtə/(also mitta) Now historical
noun
In colonial South America: a group of Peruvian or other Indians employed in forced labour by the Spanish colonists, usually for a specified period; the system under which such groups were employed.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in John Stevens (c1662–1726), translator and antiquary. From American Spanish mita from Quechua mitʔa turn, successive or alternate order.
- retrodiction
- retrodictive
- retrodictively
- retrodisplacement
- retroduce
- retroduction
- retroductive
- retroelement
- retro-fire
- retro-firing
- retrofit
- retroflected
- retroflex
- retroflexed
- retroflexion
- retroflux
- retrofocus
- retroform
- retrofuturism
- retro-futurist
- retro-futuristic
- retrogradation
- retrograde
- retrograde ejaculation
- retrogradely