Cito

cito: quickly

Part of speech: adverb Example sentence: Levis est fortuna: id cito reposcit quod dedit. Sentence meaning: Fortune is fickle: it quickly demands back what it gave. This word has not had a large influence on English but here are some examples. cite (v.) mid-15c., "to summon, call upon officially," from Old French citer "to summon" (14c.), from Latin citare "to summon, urge, call; put in sudden motion, call forward; rouse, excite," frequentative of ciere "to move, set in motion, stir, rouse, call, invite" from PIE root *keie- "to set in motion, to move to and fro." Sense of "call forth a passage of writing, quote the words of another" is first attested 1530s. Related: Cited; citing. Citation, recite, & related words.