rite
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Noun[edit]
rite (plural rites)
- A religious custom.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
ritual
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Etymology 2[edit]
Variation of right.
Adjective[edit]
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
- He's rite, you know.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Adverb[edit]
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
- It's rite next to my house.
Interjection[edit]
rite
- Informal spelling of right.
- Rite, let's do it...
Noun[edit]
rite (plural rites)
- Informal spelling of right.
- I know rite from wrong.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- rit (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
rite m (plural rites)
External links[edit]
- “rite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Participle[edit]
rite
- past participle of righ
Adjective[edit]
rite
Derived terms[edit]
- riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
rite
- past participle of rith
Adjective[edit]
rite
Derived terms[edit]
- rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)
References[edit]
- "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From rītus (“rite, custom”)
Adverb[edit]
rite (not comparable)
- according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly
References[edit]
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- RITE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
- after having performed the sacrifice (with due ritual): rebus divinis (rite) perpetratis
- to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
Maori[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.
Verb[edit]
rite
Derived terms[edit]
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