rit

See also: rît, rīt, riť, and řiť

English

Alternative forms

• ritt, ret

Etymology

From Middle English ritten (“to cut, score, slit, tear”), from Old English *rittan (“to cut, score, slit, tear,”) (compare Old High German rizzen), from Proto-West Germanic *rittjan, from Proto-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-; see *hrītaną.

Cognate with Middle Low German ritten (“to scratch”), German ritzen (“to scratch”). Compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). See also rat.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

rit (plural rits)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

Verb

rit (third-person singular simple present rits, present participle ritting, simple past and past participle ritted)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

Adverb

rit (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of ritardando.

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• IRT, RTI, TIR, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

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Albanian

Noun

rit ?

1. rite

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: rit
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: Rith

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch *rit, in Middle Dutch only sparsely attested in compounds, from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

Noun

rit m (plural ritten, diminutive ritje n)

1. a ride on a mount (animal) or man-powered vehicle
2. a drive in an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle
3. a stage or lap as part of a long tour or journey

Derived terms

• koninginnerit
• proefrit
• ritmeester
• rittenkoers
• rittenwedstrijd
• slotrit
• testrit
• tijdrit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of ritten
2. imperative of ritten

Anagrams

• tri

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French

Etymology 1

See the lemma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. Archaic spelling of rite.

Etymology 2

See the lemma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

• Audio

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Verb

rit

1. inflection of rire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

Further reading

• “rit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tir, tri

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse rit, from Proto-Germanic *writą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

Noun

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

1. writ
2. work, literary work
3. (mathematics) chart, diagram

Declension

declension of rit

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rit	ritið	rit	ritin
accusative	rit	ritið	rit	ritin
dative	riti	ritinu	ritum	ritunum
genitive	rits	ritsins	rita	ritanna

Derived terms

terms derived from rit meaning a literary work

• fylgirit
• rithöfundur
• ritröð
• ritsafn

terms derived from rit meaning a chart or diagram

• dreifirit (correlation diagram, dispersion diagram, scattergram)
• Dynkin-rit (Dynkin diagram)
• eftirlitsrit (control chart)
• eiginfylgnirit (autocorrellogram)
• fallrit (functional graph, graph)
• flæðirit (flow chart)
• fylgnirit (correlogram)
• hyrnurit (simplex algorithm)
• línurit (functional graph, graph)
• myndrit (pictogram)
• prósentustöplarit, hlutfallsstöplarit (band chart)
• punktarit (correlation diagram, dispersion diagram, scattergram)
• sjálffylgnirit (autocorrellogram)
• skífurit (circular chart, circular graph, pie chart)
• stuðlarit (area histogram, histogram)
• stöplarit (bar diagram, column diagram)
• súlurit (area histogram, histogram)
• tíðnirit (frequency diagram)
• varprit (functional graph, graph)
• venslarit (graph)
• örvarit (diagram)

terms derived from rit pertaining to writing

• leikrit
• ljósrit (photocopy)
• reiknirit
• ritmál

Related terms

• rita
• ritari

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Occitan

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly substrate origin. Compare Friulian raze, Hungarian réce, Albanian rosë, Serbo-Croatian raca.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedocien)

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Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós) or Latin ritus or French rite.

Noun

rit n (plural rituri)

1. rite

Declension

Declension of rit

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rit	ritul	(niște) rituri	riturile
genitive/dative	(unui) rit	ritului	(unor) rituri	riturilor
vocative	ritule		riturilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

Noun

rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)

1. (vulgar) butt

Synonyms

• stražnjica, zadnjica, guzica, dupe

Etymology 2

From German Ried.

Noun

rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)

1. swamp, peat bog

Synonyms

• močvara, močvarna livada

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rít/

Noun

rȉt f

1. (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

Inflection

Feminine, i-stem
nom. sing.	rít
gen. sing.	ríti
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	rít	ríti	ríti
accusative	rít	ríti	ríti
genitive	ríti	ríti	ríti
dative	ríti	rítma	rítim
locative	ríti	rítih	rítih
instrumental	rítjo	rítma	rítmi

Derived terms

• ríten
• rítnik

See also

• zádnjica
• zádnjičen
• zádnjičnonôžen
• zádnjik

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin ritus.

Noun

rit c

1. rite

Declension

Declension of rit
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rit	riten	riter	riterna
Genitive	rits	ritens	riters	riternas

Anagrams

• tri-

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Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ríːt] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -íːt

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːt, -ýːt

Noun

rit f (definite singular rita, dative ritn, definite plural riten, dative ritåm)

1. drawn line, dash

Verb

rit

1. singular active present indicative of riit

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Zaniza Zapotec

Noun

rit

1. bone