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See also: Appendix:Variations of "rite"

English

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Pronunciation

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
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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.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rite, rit m (first attested in 1479), borrowed from Latin ritus m (“rite”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rite m (plural rites)

  1. rite

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

  1. taut, tense
  2. sharp, steep
  3. exposed
  4. eager
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

  1. 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)

  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

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):
  • Hyphenation: ri‧te

Verb

rite

  1. (transitive) to plant

Conjugation

Conjugation of rite
Nonfuture indicative Future indicative
affirmative negative affirmative negative
m f m f m f m f
1st sg ritɨkue riñedɨkue 1st sg riitɨkue riñeitɨkue
2nd sg rito riñedo 2nd sg riito riñeito
3rd sg anim1) ritɨmɨe ritɨñaiño riñedɨmɨe riñedɨñaiño 3rd sg anim1) riitɨmɨe riitɨñaiño riñeitɨmɨe riñeitɨñaiño
1st du ritɨkoko ritɨkaɨñaɨ riñedɨkoko riñedɨkaɨñaɨ 1st du riitɨkoko riitɨkaɨñaɨ riñeitɨkoko riñeitɨkaɨñaɨ
2nd du ritomɨko ritomɨñoɨ riñedomɨko riñedomɨñoɨ 2nd du riitomɨko riitomɨñoɨ riñeitomɨko riñeitomɨñoɨ
3rd du anim1) ritaɨmaiaɨ ritaɨñuaɨ riñedaɨmaiaɨ riñedaɨñuaɨ 3rd du anim1) riitaɨmaiaɨ riitaɨñuaɨ riñeitaɨmaiaɨ riñeitaɨñuaɨ
1st pl ritɨkaɨ riñedɨkaɨ 1st pl riitɨkaɨ riñeitɨkaɨ
2nd pl ritomoɨ riñedomoɨ 2nd pl riitomoɨ riñeitomoɨ
3rd pl anim1) ritɨmakɨ riñedɨmakɨ 3rd pl anim1) riitɨmakɨ riñeitɨmakɨ
3rd neut rite riñede 3rd neut riite riñeite
Imperative Apprehensive Future event Passive Negative passive Overlap
simple immediate prohibitive nonfuture future nonfuture future
riño! riñokai! riñeno! riza! riye riga riyɨ riñega riñeyɨ rikana
Conditional 1) The animate 3rd person inflections are only used when the animacy of the subject needs to be emphasised. Otherwise, the neutral 3rd singular is used.
*) Same-time forms may be formed from any indicative form by adding the ending -mo directly to the inflected form.
**) The evidentiality markers -dɨ, -za and -ta may be added to any indicative form.
real hypothetical immediate
ria rina rikaina

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

  1. nominative/accusative plural of riť
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