ret

See also: rét, rêt, rết, and Ret.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

Verb

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XLVIII:

     the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

Derived terms

• retter

Translations

to soak linen, hemp etc.

• Dutch: roten (nl)
• Finnish: liottaa (fi)
• French: rouir (fr)
• Galician: cocer (gl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: rotten (de)
• Greek: μουσκεύω (el) (mouskévo)
• Italian: macerare (it)
• Westrobothnian:

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Adjective

ret

1. retired

Translations

retired

• Greek: ε.α. (el) (e.a.)
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Anagrams

• ERT, ert, ter, ter-

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Acehnese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʌt/
• (Banda Aceh) IPA^(key): [rɛt]

Noun

ret

1. road

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Catalan

Verb

ret

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rъtъ. Compare Russian рот (rot, “mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

ret m inan

1. lip

Derived terms

• rtěnka f

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/, [ˈʁɑd̥]
• Homophone: rat

Etymology 1

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

Adjective

ret

1. straight

   en ret linje

   a straight line

2. right, proper
3. rightful

   den rette arving

   the rightful heir

4. plain (in knitting)

Inflection

Inflection of ret
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Indefinte common singular	ret	—	—2
Indefinite neuter singular	ret	—	—2
Plural	rette	—	—2
Definite attributive1	rette	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Synonyms

• (rightful): retmæssig

Antonyms

• (rightful): uretmæssig
• (in knitting): vrang

Adverb

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

   Han er ret høj.

   He is rather tall.

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle Low German richte.

Noun

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) justice, law
2. court, courtroom, lawcourt (institution)
3. courtroom (physical location)
   • 2016, Louise Damløv, Cecilie Kallestrup, Tre meter fra Breivik: En beretning fra Nordens største terrorretssag, Informations Forlag (→ISBN)

     Kun omkring halvdelen af de vidner, forsvaret havde indkaldt for at sandsynliggøre, at Breiviks ideologi ikke var galemandssnak, mødte op i retten.

     Only about half of the witness that the defense had summoned to support that Brevik's ideology was not the talk of a madman appeared in court.

   • 2017, Nadine Gordimer (tr. by Finn Holten Hansen), Æresgæst, Lindhardt og Ringhof (→ISBN)

     Retten var fyldt, og ansigter blev ved med at kigge ind ad vinduerne fra en voksende mængde udenfor.

     The courtroom was full, and faces kept looking in through the windows from a growing crowd outside.

4. (uncountable) right, entitlement

   Alle mennesker har en ret til basal respekt.

   All humans have a right to basic respect.

5. dish, course (of food)
6. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric)

Declension

Declension of ret

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ret	retten	retter	retterne
genitive	rets	rettens	retters	retternes

Synonyms

• (right): rettighed
• (courtroom): retssal

See also

• jura, lov, justits

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English red.

Adjective

ret

1. red

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

Derived from .

Noun

1. A flag or stake that is used as a signal in the seal hunting grounds, or as you put on the boat to find it again among the icebergs when departing from it to hunt.

Verb

1. The .