• IPA: /ˈwɪtəl/

wittol (plural wittols)

1. (archaic) A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a cuckold.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , New York Review of Books 2001, p.67:

     To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […].

   • 1885, Sir , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, "Night 13"

     So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.

   • 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor

     God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!

2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.

• Italian: cornuto contento, becco