rime

See also rimé

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA: /raɪm/, SAMPA: /raIm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: rhyme

Etymology 1

Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīman (“hoarfrost”) (compare Dutch rijm, Danish rim); akin to Latvian krèims (“cream”) and Latin bruma (“winter solstice”).

Noun

rime (uncountable)

1. (meteorology, uncountable) ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
2. (meteorology, uncountable) a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. (uncountable) a film or slimy coating.

Synonyms

• (a deposition of ice): hoarfrost, frost

Derived terms

• rimy

Translations

hoarfrost

Arabic: بَرَد (ar) (barad) m. Egyptian Arabic: تلج (talg) m., بَرَد (barad) m. Armenian: եղյամ (hy) (eġyam) Chinese: Mandarin: 霜 (cmn) (shuāng) Coptic: Bohairic: ⲡⲁⲭⲛⲏ (paxny) f. Sahidic: ⲡⲁⲭⲛⲏ (paxny) f. Dutch: rijm (nl) m., rijp (nl) m. Finnish: huurre (fi) French: givre (fr) f. German: Raureif (de) m.

Greek: δροσόπαγος (el) (drosópagos) m., πάχνη (el) (páchni) f. Hungarian: zúzmara (hu) Italian: brina (it) f. Japanese: 霜 (ja) (しも, shimo) Latvian: sarma (lv) f. Lithuanian: šarmà (lt) f., šerkšnas (lt) Romanian: brumă (ro) Russian: иней (ru) (ínej) m., изморозь (ru) (ízmoroz') f. Scottish Gaelic: liath-reòthadh (gd) m. Spanish: escarcha (es) f. Swedish: rimfrost (sv)

Etymology 2

Middle English, from Old English rīm. Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) rhyme
2. (linguistics) the 2nd part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset

Usage notes

Many linguists prefer the spelling rime to rhyme when they mean a word class. However, both are found.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

External links

• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, mire

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French

Etymology

Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”). Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ʀim/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

rime f. (plural rimes)

1. rhyme

Verb

rime

1. first-person singular present indicative of rimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of rimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rimer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of rimer
5. second-person singular imperative of rimer

Anagrams

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

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Italian

Noun

rime f.

1. Plural form of rima.

Anagrams

• meri, mire, remi

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Old French

Noun

rime f. (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)

1. story; tale; account

Synonyms

• conte, cunte

Descendants

• English : rhyme
• French: rime
• Italian: rima
• Middle English: ryme, rime

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Portuguese

Verb

rime

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb rimar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verb rimar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb rimar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb rimar.

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Spanish

Verb

rime (infinitive rimar)

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