rime

See also rimé

English

Wikipedia

Rime on trees.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (“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.
   • De Quincey

     The trees were now covered with rime.

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

• Albanian: brymë (sq) f
• Arabic: بَرَد (ar) (barad) m

  Egyptian Arabic: تلج (talg) m, بَرَد (barad) m

• Armenian: եղյամ (hy) (eġyam)
• Aromanian: brumã (rup) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霜 (cmn) (shuāng)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲡⲁⲭⲛⲏ (paxny) f

  Sahidic: ⲡⲁⲭⲛⲏ (paxny) f

• Dutch: rijm (nl) m, rijp (nl) m, dauwvorst (nl) m, vriesdauw (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)

Verb

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

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2

Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (“number”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
2. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) rhyme

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3. (linguistics) the second 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.

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

External links

• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, mire

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French

Etymology

Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, 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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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English rīm (“number”).

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. number

   Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. — Ormulum, c1200

   (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

Related terms

• rimen v

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