obiit
French, noun\ɔ.bi.it\
obiit is spelled O-B-I-I-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obiit is a French masculine noun meaning “hatchment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peinture réalisée sur un fond noir, associant les armoiries d'une personne décédée, et ses dates de naissance…”.
What does obiit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehatchment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peinture réalisée sur un fond noir, associant les armoiries d'une personne décédée, et ses dates de naissance et de décès. On trouve parfois la graphie obÿt. 2. Mention marginale sur les anciens actes paroissiaux, indiquant qu'une personne était morte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obiit
- obiits plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obiit?
- \ɔ.bi.it\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obiit
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obiit in French?
obiit appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).