rito

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

rito (uncountable)

  1. The young leaves of the coconut palm, used in traditional weaving in the Pacific.

Etymology 2

From an American Spanish term?

Pronunciation

Noun

rito (plural ritos)

  1. (US, rare) A stream in the western US.
    • 1961, New Mexico Wildlife, volumes 6-10, page 3:
      Many small streams and ritos flow down the slopes feeding the Rio Puerco, Chama and Jemez Rivers.
    • 1994, Roberto Andrés Lucero, Sangre Del Monte, page 125:
      [] to form tiny rills that descended and gathered into larger rititos that rollicked and frollicked as they tumbled down into the ritos that carried the spring run-offs and summer rains across alpine meadows []
    • 2010, A. Kyce Bello, The Return of the River, page 192:
      On this day all the waters of the earth are blessed, the seas, the rivers and the ritos, the clear forest streams and all the muddy acequias meandering through the fields.

Further reading

  • 1998, New Mexico's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide, page 89: "The trail parallels the tranquil little stream, or rito, until suddenly the stream leaps from a basalt ledge to dive 70 feet in a graceful, beautiful waterfall."

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

rito (accusative singular riton, plural ritoj, accusative plural ritojn)

  1. rite

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rītus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈri.to/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: rì‧to

Noun

rito m (plural riti)

  1. rite; ritual

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Verb

rītō (present infinitive rītāre, perfect active rītāvī, supine rītātum); first conjugation

  1. (Late Latin) to excite
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  2. (Medieval Latin) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • RITARE 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)
  • rīto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,365/3.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Verb

rìto

  1. third-person singular past of risti
  2. third-person plural past of risti

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hriþiz. Akin to Old Saxon hrido, Old English hriþ.

Noun

rito m

  1. fever

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rītus.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -itu
  • Hyphenation: ri‧to

Noun

rito m (plural ritos)

  1. rite, ritual

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rītus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrito/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: ri‧to

Noun

rito m (plural ritos)

  1. rite
  2. ritual
    Synonym: ritual

Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *di-tu. See more at dito.

Alternative forms

Adverb

rito (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜓ)

  1. here (near the speaker and the listener)
  2. here (near the speaker)
    Synonyms: (dialectal) dine, (dialectal) rine
Usage notes
  • When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, dito is used instead.

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish rito (rite), from Latin rītus.

Noun

rito (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜓ)

  1. rite; ceremony
    Synonym: seremonya

Further reading

  • rito”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-Cu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tsonga

Noun

rito class 5 (plural marito class 6)

  1. word