ritus

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See also: Ritus, rítus, and rītus

Catalan

Noun

ritus

  1. plural of ritu

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

ritus m (plural ritussen, diminutive ritusje n)

  1. rite

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: ritus

See also

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ritus, from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ri‧tus

Noun

ritus

  1. rite, a religious custom.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-. Cognate with Sanskrit रीति (rītí, “rite, custom, usage, ceremony, procedure”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rītus m (genitive rītūs); fourth declension

  1. rite, ceremony
  2. habit, custom, usage

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rītus rītūs
genitive rītūs rītuum
dative rītuī rītibus
accusative rītum rītūs
ablative rītū rītibus
vocative rītus rītūs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “ritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ritus 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)
  • ritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to fight like lions: ferarum ritu pugnare

Latvian

Noun

ritus m

  1. accusative plural of rits

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ritus (“rite”). Doublet of rite, which has much of the same sense.

Noun

ritus m (definite singular ritusen, indefinite plural rituser or riter, definite plural ritusene or ritene)

  1. (religion) a cult, rite
  2. (by extension, usually humorous) a specific way of doing something, a ceremony

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ritus (“rite”). Doublet of rite.

Noun

ritus m (definite singular ritusen, indefinite plural ritusar, definite plural ritusane)

  1. (dated or humorous) a rite, cult
    Synonym: rite
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