What do "nita" and "amix" mean?

Question

I commonly hear Mexican girls refer to each other as "nita" (it may be "mita"), or call it out to get each others attention. What exactly does it mean?

And also, I see Spanish-speakers call girls "amix" constantly online, especially if they are trying to date them. What does it mean as well?

Answer 1

My wife's name is Nita, short for Juanita which she hates. Don't know if that's what you are talking about. It's short for other names too like Carmenita. It's a diminutive thing.

Answer 2

My friend informed me that the word was indeed "nita" and was a friendly form of "hermanita", in case anyone else needed/wanted to know.

Little sister? Nice to know! I found this trying to find out what is nortenita. - DonRCP, SEP 17, 2013

Answer 3

in mexican spanish 'nita' is short for 'hermanita', as someone else pointed above, and in common slang/general use it's like calling someone 'sistah'.

'amix' stands in mexican online spanish for 'amiga/amigo'.

Answer 4

Savvi said:

..it may be "mita"....call it out to get each others attention.

It's probably just ¡Mira! which means "Hey, look!"

It was nita. I couldn't tell if it was an m or n at first, but I know it definitely wasn't mira. They say mira much differently than they do this word "nita". They say it more like "nitá" - SavviVague, OCT 7, 2009

Answer 5

I know two sisters who call eachother it. Their names are Gabriela and Maria/Alejandra... Neither of which would be shortened to Nita... I've also heard other people I do not personally know call their female friends/relatives it.