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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- A religious custom.
- (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
ritual
- Albanian: rit (sq) m
- Arabic: طَقْس دِينِيّ m (ṭaqs dīniyy), شَعِيرَة f (šaʕīra), طَقْس m (ṭaqs)
- Armenian: ծես (hy) (ces), արարողություն (araroġutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: ayin (az)
- Bashkir: йола (yola)
- Belarusian: абра́д m (abrád), рытуа́л m (rytuál)
- Bengali: আচার (bn) (acar)
- Bulgarian: о́бред (bg) m (óbred), ритуа́л (bg) m (rituál)
- Burmese: အခမ်းအနား (my) (a.hkam:a.na:)
- Catalan: ritus (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 儀/仪 (zh) (yí), 儀式/仪式 (zh) (yíshì), 典禮/典礼 (zh) (diǎnlǐ), 禮/礼 (zh) (lǐ)
- Czech: obřad (cs) m, rituál (cs) m
- Danish: ritus c, rite c
- Dutch: ritus (nl) f, kerkgebruik (nl) n
- Egyptian: (jrw)
- Esperanto: rito (eo)
- Estonian: riitus, rituaal
- Finnish: riitti (fi)
- French: rite (fr) m, es (fr) pl or m or m pl or f or f pl
- Galician: rito m
- Georgian: რიტუალი (riṭuali)
- German: Ritus (de) m, Brauch (de)
- Greek: τελετουργία (el) f (teletourgía)
- Ancient: τελετή f (teletḗ), θέσμιον n (thésmion)
- Hebrew: פולחן \ פֻּלְחָן (he) m (pulkhán)
- Hindi: अनुष्ठान (hi) m (anuṣṭhān)
- Hungarian: szertartás (hu), ceremónia (hu), rítus (hu)
- Icelandic: helgiathöfn f, helgisiður (is) m
- Indonesian: upacara (id), ritus (id)
- Interlingua: rito
- Italian: rito (it) m
- Japanese: 儀式 (ja) (ぎしき, gishiki)
- Kazakh: ырым (yrym)
- Khmer: ពិធី (km) (pithii), វិធី (km) (vithii)
- Korean: 의식(儀式) (ko) (uisik)
- Kyrgyz: ырым (ky) (ırım)
- Lao: ພິທີ (phi thī), ພິທີກຳ (phi thī kam)
- Latin: rītus m, caerimōnia (la) f
- Latvian: rits (lv) m, rituāls (lv) m
- Lithuanian: ritualas m
- Macedonian: обред m (obred), ритуа́л m (rituál)
- Malay: ritus
- Maori: ritenga, kawanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ritual n
- Old English: sidu m
- Persian: آیین (fa) (âyin)
- Polish: rytuał (pl) m inan, obrządek (pl) m inan, obrzęd (pl) m inan, ryt (pl) m
- Portuguese: rito (pt) m
- Quechua: hayway
- Romanian: ritual (ro) n, rit (ro) n
- Russian: обря́д (ru) m (obrjád), ритуа́л (ru) m (rituál)
- Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀бред m, риту̀а̄л m
- Roman: òbred (sh) m, ritùāl (sh) m
- Slovak: obrad m, rituál m
- Slovene: obred (sl) m, ritual m
- Spanish: rito (es) m
- Swedish: rit (sv) c
- Tajik: оин (tg) (oyin)
- Tatar: йола (tt) (yola)
- Thai: พิธี (th) (pí-tii), พิธีกรรม (th) (pí-tii-gam)
- Turkish: ayin (tr)
- Ukrainian: обря́д m (obrjád), ритуа́л m (rytuál)
- Uzbek: marosim (uz)
- Vietnamese: lễ nghi (vi), nghi lễ (vi), nghi thức (vi)
- Yoruba: orò
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Etymology 2
Variation of right.
Adjective
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
He's rite, you know.
Derived terms
Adverb
rite (not comparable)
- 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
- Informal spelling of right.
Rite, let's do it.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- Informal spelling of right.
I went to the Rite Aid for my prescription, then to ShopRite for a gallon of milk.
- used in unique spellings of company brand names
- part of the contraction and interjection amirite
Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ritus.
Pronunciation
Noun
rite m (plural rites)
- rite
Derived terms
Further reading
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rīte.
Pronunciation
Adverb
rite
- (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
Etymology 1
Participle
rite
- past participle of righ
Adjective
rite
- taut, tense
- sharp, steep
- exposed
- eager
Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rigthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
Etymology 2
Participle
rite
- past participle of rith
Adjective
rite
- exhausted, extinct
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From rītus (“rite, custom”), presumably from an ablative of an old third-declension form *rītis.
Adverb
rīte (not comparable)
- 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
- to resemble; to be like, similar, alike
Derived terms
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
Verb
rite
- (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
Noun
rite
- nominative/accusative plural of riť