קַיְטָא, heat, summer, ripening. Targ. O. Gen. VIII, 22 (ed. Berl. a. Y. קִיְטָא). Targ. Is. XXVIII, 4. Targ. Am. III, 15; a. fr.—Yoma 29ᵃ שילהי דק׳ וכ׳ the expiration of the summer is more trying than the summer itself. Ib. אישתא … מדק׳ a fever in winter is severer than in summer. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ top, v. סִתְוָא. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joh. 1), v. טִיהֲרָא. Y. Maasr. I, 49ᵃ top, v. צַמְיָיא; a. fr.