rice

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Unpolished rice (2)

[edit] Etymology

Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óryza), ὄρυζον (óryzon), from Old Iranian (cf. Old Persian brizi, Pashto wrižē, Kurdish birinc (ku)), from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhí), either borrowed from Dravidian – compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (rice); Old Tamil அரிசி (arici), from earlier *ariki, is a different word, however – or, according to Witzel, borrowed from an unknown South Asian, possibly Austroasiatic, source, with the Dravidian word being an independent borrowing of another variant.[1]

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rice (uncountable)

  1. Cereal plants (Oryza sativa) of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
  2. The seeds of this plant used as food.

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rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)

  1. to squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces
  2. to throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
  3. to belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state
  4. to harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.

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  1. ^ http://www.ias.ac.in/jbiosci/dec2009/Witzel_fulltext

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rice m. and f.

  1. Alternative form of riche.

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  • IPA: /ˈriːtʃe/

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Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (mighty), *rīkijan (authority), from Proto-Celtic *rīgiom (kingdom), from *rīgs (king) (compare Irish ), from Proto-Indo-European *rēgs (king). Cognates include Old Saxon rīki (Dutch rijk), Old High German rīhhi (German Reich, reich), Old Norse ríki n, ríkr a (Swedish rike n, rik a), Gothic 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹 n, 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 a. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin rex.

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rīċe n.

  1. power, authority, dominion
  2. kingdom, empire

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rīċe

  1. powerful, mighty; rich

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rice m. and f.

  1. (Picardy) Alternative form of riche.

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rice (infinitive rizar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rizar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rizar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rizar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rizar.
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