Pita vs Pity - What's the difference?
pita | pity |
A fiber obtained from the and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
The plant which yields the fiber.
(Webster 1913)
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(uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
* Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
* Shakespeare
*, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
(countable) Something regrettable.
* Laurence Sterne
* Addison
(obsolete) piety
To feel pity for (someone or something).
* Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
* Book of Common Prayer
Short form of what a pity.
As nouns the difference between pita and pity
is that pita is a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels while pity is a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.As a verb pity is
to feel pity for (someone or something).As an interjection pity is
short form of what a pity.pita
English
(wikipedia pita)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* pita bread * pitta * pitta breadEtymology 2
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)pity
English
Alternative forms
* pitty (obsolete)Noun
- He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
- Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
- The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
- It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
- It was a thousand pities .
- What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
- (Wyclif)
Synonyms
* (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shameVerb
(en-verb)- Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
- She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
- It pitieth them to see her in the dust.