rite

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rite"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹaɪt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

  1. A religious custom.
  2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    He's rite, you know.
Derived terms

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    It's rite next to my house.
    • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.

Interjection

rite

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    Rite, let's do it.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    I went to the Rite Aid for my prescription, then to ShopRite for a gallon of milk.
    1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
    2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

Anagrams

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁit/
  • (file)

Noun

rite m (plural rites)

  1. rite

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adverb

rite

  1. (literary, rare) strictly in accordance with the rules
    • 2021, Jan Wilhelm, Sachenrecht (De Gruyter Handbuch), 7th edition, →ISBN, Rn. 1456, page 879:
      Solange die Forderung nur eine künftige ist, darf für eine rite zustande gekommene Bestellung der Hypothek auch der öffentliche Glaube des Grundbuchs (§§ 892 I, 1138) nur den Rechtsschein einer Hypothek für eine künftige Forderung begründen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

  • rite” in Duden online
  • rite” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɾˠɨ̞tʲə/

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

  1. taut, tense
  2. sharp, steep
  3. exposed [+ le (object) = to]
  4. eager [+ chun (object) = for]
Derived terms

Further reading

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

  1. exhausted, extinct
Derived terms
  • rite anuas, rite síos (run down) (in health)

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From rītus (rite, custom), presumably from an ablative of an old third-declension form *rītis.

Adverb

rīte (not comparable)

  1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

References

  • rite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
    • after having performed the sacrifice (with due ritual): rebus divinis (rite) perpetratis

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

Verb

rite

  1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

Derived terms

  • whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

References

  • rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾitɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ri‧te

Verb

rite

  1. (transitive) to plant

Conjugation

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20) (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrice]

Noun

rite

  1. nominative/accusative plural of riť
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