ritus

See also: Ritus, rítus, and rītus

Catalan

Noun

ritus

1. plural of ritu

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

ritus m (plural ritussen, diminutive ritusje n)

1. rite

Descendants

• → Indonesian: ritus

See also

• ceremonie f
• kerkgebruik n
• plechtigheid f
• ritueel n

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch ritus, from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈritus/ [ˈri.t̪ʊs]
• Rhymes: -itus
• Syllabification: ri‧tus

Noun

ritus (plural ritus-ritus)

1. rite, a religious custom

Related terms

• ritual

Further reading

• “ritus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *reitus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂réy-tu-s ~ *h₂ri-téw-s, from the root *h₂rey- (“to count, observe carefully”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.tus]

Noun

rītus m (genitive rītūs); fourth declension

1. rite, ceremony
2. habit, custom, usage

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rītus	rītūs
genitive	rītūs	rītuum
dative	rītuī	rītibus
accusative	rītum	rītūs
ablative	rītū	rītibus
vocative	rītus	rītūs

Derived terms

• rītuālis

Descendants

• Catalan: ritu
• Corsican: ritu
• → English: rite
• French: rite
• Friulian: rît
• Galician: rito
• Italian: rito
• Piedmontese: rit
• Portuguese: rito
• Romanian: rit
• Sicilian: ritu
• Spanish: rito
• → Swedish: rit

Further reading

• “ritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ritus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ritus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fight like lions: ferarum ritu pugnare
    

Latvian

Noun

ritus m

1. accusative plural of rits

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ritus (“rite”). Doublet of rite, which has much of the same sense.

Noun

ritus m (definite singular ritusen, indefinite plural rituser or riter, definite plural ritusene or ritene)

1. (religion) a cult, rite
2. (by extension, usually humorous) a specific way of doing something, a ceremony

References

• “ritus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ritus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ritus (“rite”). Doublet of rite.

Noun

ritus m (definite singular ritusen, indefinite plural ritusar, definite plural ritusane)

1. (dated or humorous) a rite, cult

   Synonym: rite