Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pith
Participle: pithed
Gerund: pithing
Indicative
Present
| I | pith |
| you | pith |
| he;she;it | piths |
| we | pith |
| you | pith |
| they | pith |
Perfect
| I | have pithed |
| you | have pithed |
| he;she;it | has pithed |
| we | have pithed |
| you | have pithed |
| they | have pithed |
Past
| I | pithed |
| you | pithed |
| he;she;it | pithed |
| we | pithed |
| you | pithed |
| they | pithed |
Pluperfect
| I | had pithed |
| you | had pithed |
| he;she;it | had pithed |
| we | had pithed |
| you | had pithed |
| they | had pithed |
Future
| I | will pith |
| you | will pith |
| he;she;it | will pith |
| we | will pith |
| you | will pith |
| they | will pith |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pithed |
| you | will have pithed |
| he;she;it | will have pithed |
| we | will have pithed |
| you | will have pithed |
| they | will have pithed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pith |
| you | pith |
| he;she;it | pith |
| we | pith |
| you | pith |
| they | pith |
Perfect
| I | have pithed |
| you | have pithed |
| he;she;it | have pithed |
| we | have pithed |
| you | have pithed |
| they | have pithed |
Imperfect
| I | pithed |
| you | pithed |
| he;she;it | pithed |
| we | pithed |
| you | pithed |
| they | pithed |
Pluperfect
| I | had pithed |
| you | had pithed |
| he;she;it | had pithed |
| we | had pithed |
| you | had pithed |
| they | had pithed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pith |
| you | would pith |
| he;she;it | would pith |
| we | would pith |
| you | would pith |
| they | would pith |
Perfect
| I | would have pithed |
| you | would have pithed |
| he;she;it | would have pithed |
| we | would have pithed |
| you | would have pithed |
| they | would have pithed |
Imperative
| you | pith |
| we | Let's pith |
| you | pith |
Verbs conjugated like 'pith'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pith'
path,
pish,
pit,
pitch,
pity,
auth,
bath,
birth,
bit,
bitch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
piþa "pith of plants," also "essential part," from W.Gmc.
*pithan- (cf. M.Du.
pitte, E.Fris.
pit), a Low Ger. root of uncertain origin. Fig. sense was in O.E. The verb meaning "to kill by piercing the spinal cord" is from 1805.
Pithy "full of substance or significance" is recorded from 1529.
Pith helmet (1889, earlier
pith hat, 1884) so called because it is made from the dried pith of the Bengal spongewood.
2. The noun is derived from Middle English pith, pithe (“soft interior; pith, pulp”) [and other forms], from Old English piþa [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *piþô, from earlier *piþō (oblique *pittan); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pit (“seed or stone inside a fruit”).
3. The verb Middle English pethen (“to give courage or strength”), derived from the noun pith (noun), did not survive into modern English.
4. Cognates
5. * Dutch peen (“carrot”)
6. * Middle Low German peddek, peddik, piddek (“bone marrow; medulla; spinal cord; inner part of a horn or quill; (figurative) core, essence”) (the last spelling rare) (Low German Peddik (“core; pulp”))
7. * West Frisian piid (“pulp, kernel”) See: Dutch '
peen'.
Sample Sentences
-
And yet, instead of exclaiming "Send this inconceivable Satanist to the stake," the respectable newspapers pith me by announcing "another book by this brilliant and thoughtful writer." [1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, “To Arthur Bingham Walkley”, in Man and Superman, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, page xxxiv:]