ritus

See also: Ritus, rítus, and rītus

Catalan

Noun

ritus

1. plural of ritu

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Pronunciation

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Noun

ritus f (plural ritussen, diminutive ritusje n)

1. rite

See also

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

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-. Cognate with Sanskrit रीति (rītí, “rite, custom, usage, ceremony, procedure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈriː.tus/, [ˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.tus/, [ˈriːt̪us]

Noun

rītus m (genitive rītūs); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rītus	rītūs
Genitive	rītūs	rītuum
Dative	rītuī	rītibus
Accusative	rītum	rītūs
Ablative	rītū	rītibus
Vocative	rītus	rītūs

Descendants

• English: rite
• French: rite
• Italian: rito
• Portuguese: rito

• Romanian: rit
• Spanish: rito
• Swedish: rit

References

• “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’s 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
    

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Latvian

Noun

ritus m

1. (deprecated template usage) accusative plural form of rits