mita
/ˈmiːtə/(also mitta) Now historical
noun
In colonial South America: a group of Peruvian or other Indians employed in forced labour by the Spanish colonists, usually for a specified period; the system under which such groups were employed.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in John Stevens (c1662–1726), translator and antiquary. From American Spanish mita from Quechua mitʔa turn, successive or alternate order.
- interrogational
- interrogation mark
- interrogation point
- interrogative
- interrogatively
- interrogator
- interrogatory
- interrupt
- interrupted
- interrupter
- interruptible
- interruption
- interruptive
- interruptor
- inter se
- intersect
- intersection
- intersectional
- intersectionality
- intersegmental
- intersegmentally
- interseptal
- interservice
- intersession
- intersex