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PIT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow (see Pitt) + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : variant of Peter.Jewish (from Ukraine) : metonymic occupational nanme from Yiddish dialect piter ‘butter’. Compare Putterman.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living near a pit or hollow, from Old Norse gryfja ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, or a habitational name from Griff in Warwickshire, Griffe in Derbyshire, or Griff Farm in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, all probably named with this word.Welsh : short form of Griffith.Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McGriff.German : variant of Greif 1.
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English (chiefly eastern and southern)
English (chiefly eastern and southern) : from an agent derivative of Middle English pich ‘pitch’, hence an occupational name for a caulker, one who sealed the seams of ships or barrels with pitch.English : variant of Pickard 2.Possibly from German Pitscher, from the short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bītan ‘to endure’, or bittan ‘to wish or ask for’.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from a place near Shrewsbury, where there was a bituminous well; the name is derived from Old English pic ‘pitch’ + ford ‘ford’.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname for someone with a pock-marked face, from Old Northern French greslé ‘pitted’, ‘scarred’ (from gresle ‘hailstone’, of Germanic origin).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived near a pit or man-made hollow, from Old French fouille ‘pit’. The pit in question could have been a lime pit, a clay pit, or an excavation designed to receive refuse. There are several minor places in England named with this word, as for example Foyle Farm in Oxted, Surrey, and in some instances the surname may be a habitational name derived from one of these rather than directly from the physical feature.
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British, Dutch, English, Greek
From the Pit
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English
English : variant of Pitt.Americanized spelling of German Pitz.
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English
English : from Middle English pytte, pitte ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Pitt in Hampshire.
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Northern Irish
Northern Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mealláin ‘descendant of Meallán’, a personal name that is a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Meulan in Seine-et-Oise.Dutch (van Mellon) : habitational name from Millun bij Keulen.Thomas and Sarah Jane Mellon came to Pittsburgh, PA, from Lower Castletown, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1818. Their grandson, the industrialist and financier Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937) is remembered not only as a businessman but also as an art collector. He served as secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932.
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English (Bedfordshire)
English (Bedfordshire) : variant of Pipkin.The Pitkin name was introduced by William Pitkin, a leading lawyer and judge in CT, who migrated from Marylebone, London, to Hartford, CT, in 1660. William was probably the largest landowner on the east side of the Connecticut River, where he owned part of a saw and grist mill.
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English
English : habitational name from Gravely in Cambridgeshire or Graveley in Hertfordshire. The first is possibly from Old English græf ‘pit’, ‘trench’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’. The second is from Old English grÇ£fe, grÄf(a) ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + lÄ“ah.Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss Gräffi, a variant of Graf.
Male
Gypsy/Romani
 Possibly a pet form of Romani Pitti, PITIVO means "rock; stone."
Surname or Lastname
Variant of French Dufort.English
Variant of French Dufort.English : apparently a habitational name, perhaps from Dulford in Broadhembury, Devon, which is named from an unattested Old English word dylfet ‘pit’, ‘quarry’.
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Tamil
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Devoted to his father
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; probably of French origin (see 2).French : unflattering nickname from a derivative of Old French pite ‘pitiful’, ‘lamentable’, perhaps applied to a family living in extreme poverty.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a hollow (see Pitt).German (Pittmann) : probably from a compound personal name formed with Pitt, a short form of Peter + Mann ‘man’.
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English (mainly southwestern)
English (mainly southwestern) : variant of Pitt, with the addition of man.German (Pitmann) : variant of Pittmann (see Pittman).Dutch : variant of Putman 2.
Male
Gypsy/Romani
 Possibly a Romani form of Hungarian Peti, PITTI means "rock; stone."
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English and German
English and German : variant of Pittman.
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pl.
of Pity
imp. & p. p.
of Pity
v. i.
To be compassionate; to show pity.
v. t.
To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
a.
Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
a.
Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
v. t.
Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
a.
Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
a.
Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.
v. t.
To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pity
a.
Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.
n.
Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
n.
A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
n.
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
v. i.
To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
a.
Pockmarked; pitted.
n. & adv.
See Pitapat.