rite

rite

See also: ritë, řitě, řítě, and rɨte

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.

Related terms

• ritual

Translations

ritual

Albanian: rit (sq) m Arabic: طَقْس دِينِيّ‎ m (ṭaqs dīniyy), شَعِيرَة‎ f (šaʿīra), طَقْس‎ m (ṭaqs) Armenian: ծես (hy) (ces), արարողություն (ararołutʿyun) Azerbaijani: ayin (az) Bashkir: йола (yola) Belarusian: абра́д m (abrád), рытуа́л m (rytuál) Bengali: আচার (bn) (acar) Bulgarian: о́бред (bg) m (óbred), ритуа́л (bg) m (rituál) Burmese: အခမ်းအနား (my) (a.hkam:a.na:) Catalan: ritus (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 儀／仪 (zh) (yí), 儀式／仪式 (zh) (yíshì), 典禮／典礼 (zh) (diǎnlǐ), 禮／礼 (zh) (lǐ) Czech: obřad (cs) m, rituál (cs) m Danish: ritus c, rite c Dutch: ritus (nl) f, kerkgebruik (nl) n Egyptian: (jrw) Esperanto: rito (eo) Estonian: riitus, rituaal Finnish: riitti (fi) French: rite (fr) m Galician: rito m Georgian: რიტუალი (riṭuali) German: Ritus (de) m, Brauch (de) Greek: τελετουργία (el) f (teletourgía) Ancient: τελετή f (teletḗ), θέσμιον n (thésmion) Hebrew: פולחן \\ פֻּלְחָן‎ (he) m (pulkhán) Hindi: अनुष्ठान (hi) m (anuṣṭhān) Hungarian: szertartás (hu), ceremónia (hu), rítus (hu) Icelandic: helgiathöfn f, helgisiður (is) m Indonesian: upacara (id), ritus (id) Interlingua: rito Italian: rito (it) m Japanese: 儀式 (ja) (ぎしき, gishiki) Kazakh: ырым (yrym) Khmer: ពិធី (km) (pithii), វិធី (km) (vithii) Korean: 의식(儀式) (ko) (uisik) Kyrgyz: ырым (ky) (ırım) Lao: ພິທີ (phi thī), ພິທີກຳ (phi thī kam) Latin: rītus m, caerimōnia (la) f Latvian: rits (lv) m, rituāls (lv) m Lithuanian: ritualas m Macedonian: обред m (obred), ритуа́л m (rituál) Malay: ritus Maori: ritenga Norwegian: Bokmål: ritual n Old English: sidu m Persian: آیین‎ (fa) (âyin) Polish: rytuał (pl) m inan, obrządek (pl) m inan, obrzęd (pl) m inan, ryt (pl) m Portuguese: rito (pt) m Quechua: hayway Romanian: ritual (ro) n, rit (ro) n Russian: обря́д (ru) m (obrjád), ритуа́л (ru) m (rituál) Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀бред m, риту̀а̄л m Roman: òbred (sh) m, ritùāl (sh) m Slovak: obrad m, rituál m Slovene: obred (sl) m, ritual m Spanish: rito (es) m Swedish: rit (sv) c Tajik: оин (tg) (oyin) Tatar: йола (tt) (yola) Thai: พิธี (th) (pí-tii), พิธีกรรม (pí-tii-gam) Turkish: ayin (tr) Ukrainian: обря́д m (obrjád), ритуа́л m (rytuál) Uzbek: marosim (uz) Vietnamese: lễ nghi (vi), nghi lễ (vi), nghi thức (vi)

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   He's rite, you know.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• amirite

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   It's rite next to my house.

Interjection

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   I went to the Rite Aid for my prescription, then to ShopRite for a gallon of milk.

   1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
   2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie

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French

Alternative forms

• rit (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

• Audio

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Noun

rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

Derived terms

• rite de passage

Further reading

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

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɨ̞tʲə/

Participle

rite

1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed [+ le (object) = to]
4. eager [+ chun (object) = for]

Derived terms

• riteacht f (“tautness”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rigthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

Participle

rite

1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

1. exhausted, extinct

Derived terms

• rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Latin

Etymology

From rītus (“rite, custom”).

Adverb

rīte (not comparable)

1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

References

• “rite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
    

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

Verb

rite

1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

Derived terms

• whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

References

• “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.tɛ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

Verb

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrite]

Noun

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of riť