acabit

== French == === Etymology === 14th century, from Middle French acabit, acabie (“kind, sort”, in one instance also “accident”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Old Occitan *acabit, past participle of acabir, itself a byform of two different verbs: 1.) cabir (“to contain, comprise”), from Latin capere, and 2.) acabar (“to finish, bring to an end”), from Vulgar Latin *accapāre (cognates of French chevir and achever respectively). The semantics are not entirely convincing, however, and the nominal use is entirely unattested in Occitan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.ka.bi/ === Noun === acabit m (plural acabits) kind, type, sort Synonyms: sorte, genre, style ==== Derived terms ==== du même acabit === Further reading === “acabit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012