“waiteth” is a form of
wait
/weɪt/ verb, noun, interjection, proper noun
Forms waits waiting waited waitest waitedst waiteth waight
- verb (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. “Wait here until your car arrives.”
- verb (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. “She used to wait in this joint.”
- verb (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) “to wait one’s turn”
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
- verb (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
- verb (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
- verb (obsolete, except in phrases) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
- verb (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
- noun A delay. “I had a very long wait at the airport security check.”
- noun An ambush. “They lay in wait for the patrol.”
- noun (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
- noun (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
- noun (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
- interjection (informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification. “- And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
hold one's breath wait on wait upon serve bestand attend escort go with defer await wait for tend postpone abide back that train up bide bide one's time expect hang on hold on delay hold time lag postponement waiting hold off hold back look waitress
Antonyms
act grasp grasp the nettle jump at the chance jump on go it blind jump the gun shoot first and ask questions later shoot from the hip
Etymology
From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”).
Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan, source of bide.
English surname, variant of Waite.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.]
- verb To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
- verb To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
- verb To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await. [Obs.]
Etymology [OE. waiten, OF. waitier, gaitier, to watch, attend, F. guetter to watch, to wait for, fr. OHG. wahta a guard, watch, G. wacht, from OHG. wahhen to watch, be awake. *134. See Wake, v. i.]
Etymology [OF. waite, guaite, gaite, F. guet watch, watching, guard, from OHG. wahta. See Wait, v. i.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “wait”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details