rime
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA(key): /ɹaɪm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪm
- Homophone: rhyme
Etymology 1
From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmaz, *hrīmą (“hoarfrost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to streak; graze; touch”).
Cognate with Dutch rijm (“hoarfrost”), dialectal Bavarian Reim (“light frost, fog, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”).
Noun
rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)
- (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- Synonyms: hoarfrost, frost
- 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “(please specify the page)”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, OCLC 1181020918:
- The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], OCLC 560168646; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), OCLC 189563, page 144:
- I rose, put on my shoes, and began to walk up and down the floor to try and warm myself. I looked out; there was rime on the window; it was snowing.
- (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- A film or slimy coating.
Derived terms
- rimy
Translations
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Verb
rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)
- To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Etymology 2
From Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (“number; the precise sum or aggregation of any collection of individual things or persons”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.
Alternative forms
- rhyme
Noun
rime (plural rimes)
- (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
- (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem
- But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star ,
Holds back the blighting wings of Time,
Melts with his breath the crusty rime
- But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star ,
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- Coordinate term: onset
- Meronyms: nucleus, coda
Translations
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Verb
rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)
- Obsolete form of rhyme.
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
rime (plural rimes)
- A step of a ladder; a rung.
Etymology 4
Latin rima.
Noun
rime (plural rimes)
- A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Further reading
rime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Anagrams
- IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, Remi, emir, meri, mire, reim, riem
Danish
Etymology
Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.
Verb
rime (imperative rim, infinitive at rime, present tense rimer, past tense rimede, perfect tense rimet)
- to rhyme
References
- “rime” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą. Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁim/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -im
Noun
rime f (plural rimes)
- rhyme
- 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire, page 43:
- Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.
- The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.
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Derived terms
- rime riche
Verb
rime
- inflection of rimer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “rime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi
Italian
Noun
rime f
- plural of rima
Anagrams
- ermi, meri, mire, remi
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.
Noun
rime m or f
- line of poetry, verse
- rhyme
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: rijm
Further reading
- “rime (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “rime (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English rīm (“number”).
Noun
rime (plural rimes)
- number
- Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. — Ormulum, c1200
- (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)
Related terms
- rimen (verb)
Descendants
- English: rhyme
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]
Etymology 1
From the noun rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime.
Verb
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimte or rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)
- to rhyme
- to match, line up
- Informasjonen han ga rimte ikke med det vi allerede viste.
- The information he gave us didn't match with what we already knew.
Etymology 2
From rim, from Old Norse hrím.
Verb
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)
- to rime
References
“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]
Alternative forms
- (of the verbs) rima
Etymology 1
From rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime.
Verb
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)
- to rhyme
- to match, line up
Etymology 2
From rim, from Old Norse hrím.
Verb
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)
- to rime
Etymology 3
From Old Norse rimi.
Noun
rime
- an elongated row of hills or low mountains
Synonyms
- høgdedrag (Bokmål also)
- jordrygg (Bokmål also)
- rinde
References
“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.
Noun
rime f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)
- story; tale; account
Synonyms
- conte, cunte
Descendants
- (influenced) English: rhyme
- French: rime
- Italian: rima
- Middle English: ryme, rime
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁĩ.mi/ [ˈhĩ.mi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʁĩ.mi/ [ˈχĩ.mi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.me/ [ˈhi.me]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.m(ɨ)/
Verb
rime
- inflection of rimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
rime
- inflection of rimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative