rite

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rite"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

• Audio (General American):

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

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.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     It was the capable manager's long-established custom to escort Mrs Pridger to a theatre once a week, and Saturday evening had come to be the occasion of this rite.

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

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

Derived terms

• bedrite
• funeral rite
• Latin rite
• morning rite
• riteless
• ritely
• rite of passage
• water rite

Related terms

• ritual

Translations

ritual

• Albanian: rit (sq) m
• Arabic: طَقْس دِينِيّ m (ṭaqs dīniyy), شَعِيرَة f (šaʕīra), طَقْس m (ṭaqs)
• Armenian: ծես (hy) (ces), արարողություն (araroġutʻyun)
• 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: ritu (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, es (fr) pl or m or m pl or f or f pl
• Galician: rito (gl) m
• Georgian: რიტუალი (riṭuali)
• German: Ritus (de) m, Brauch (de)
• Greek: τελετουργία (el) f (teletourgía)

  Ancient Greek: 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
• Māori: ritenga, kawanga
• 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

  Latin: 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 (th) (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)
• Yoruba: orò

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   He's rite, you know.

Derived terms

• amirite
• das rite

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   It's rite next to my house.

   • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.

Interjection

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rite, rit m (first attested in 1479), borrowed from Latin ritus m (“rite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

Derived terms

• rite de passage m
• rite byzantin m
• rite constantinopolitain m

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adverb

rite

1. (literary, rare) strictly in accordance with the rules
   • 2021, Jan Wilhelm, Sachenrecht (De Gruyter Handbuch)‎^[1], 7th edition, →ISBN, Rn. 1456, page 879:

     Solange die Forderung nur eine künftige ist, darf für eine rite zustande gekommene Bestellung der Hypothek auch der öffentliche Glaube des Grundbuchs (§§ 892 I, 1138) nur den Rechtsschein einer Hypothek für eine künftige Forderung begründen.

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Further reading

• “rite” in Duden online
• “rite”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Irish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Participle

rite

1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed [with le ‘to’]
4. eager [with chun ‘for’]

Derived terms

• riteacht f (“tautness”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rigthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

Etymology 2

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 [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

Presumably from an ablative of an old third-declension form *rītis, related to rītus (“rite, custom”).

Pronunciation

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

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, 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^[3], 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
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “rītus, -ūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524

Māori

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

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

Middle High German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈriːtə/

Verb

rīte

1. first-person singular present indicative of rīten
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rīten

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈritə/

Verb

rite

1. second-person singular past indicative of rīten
2. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of rīten

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾitɛ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

Verb

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

Conjugation

Conjugation of rite

Nonfuture indicative					Future indicative
	affirmative		negative			affirmative		negative
	m	f	m	f		m	f	m	f
1st sg	ritɨkue		riñedɨkue		1st sg	riitɨkue		riñeitɨkue
2nd sg	rito		riñedo		2nd sg	riito		riñeito
3rd sg anim1)	ritɨmɨe	ritɨñaiño	riñedɨmɨe	riñedɨñaiño	3rd sg anim1)	riitɨmɨe	riitɨñaiño	riñeitɨmɨe	riñeitɨñaiño
1st du	ritɨkoko	ritɨkaɨñaɨ	riñedɨkoko	riñedɨkaɨñaɨ	1st du	riitɨkoko	riitɨkaɨñaɨ	riñeitɨkoko	riñeitɨkaɨñaɨ
2nd du	ritomɨko	ritomɨñoɨ	riñedomɨko	riñedomɨñoɨ	2nd du	riitomɨko	riitomɨñoɨ	riñeitomɨko	riñeitomɨñoɨ
3rd du anim1)	ritaɨmaiaɨ	ritaɨñuaɨ	riñedaɨmaiaɨ	riñedaɨñuaɨ	3rd du anim1)	riitaɨmaiaɨ	riitaɨñuaɨ	riñeitaɨmaiaɨ	riñeitaɨñuaɨ
1st pl	ritɨkaɨ		riñedɨkaɨ		1st pl	riitɨkaɨ		riñeitɨkaɨ
2nd pl	ritomoɨ		riñedomoɨ		2nd pl	riitomoɨ		riñeitomoɨ
3rd pl anim1)	ritɨmakɨ		riñedɨmakɨ		3rd pl anim1)	riitɨmakɨ		riñeitɨmakɨ
3rd neut	rite		riñede		3rd neut	riite		riñeite
Imperative			Apprehensive	Future event	Passive		Negative passive		Overlap
simple	immediate	prohibitive			nonfuture	future	nonfuture	future
ri! riño!	riñokai!	riñeno!	riza!	riye	riga	riyɨ	riñega	riñeyɨ	rikana
Conditional
real	hypothetical	immediate	negative
ria	rina	rikaina	riñenia

¹⁾ The animate 3rd person inflections are only used when the animacy of the subject needs to be emphasised. Otherwise, the neutral 3rd singular is used.
^*) Same-time forms may be formed from any indicative form by adding the ending -mo directly to the inflected form.
^**) The evidentiality markers -dɨ, -za and -ta may be added to any indicative form.

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[4] (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.‎^[5], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Old High German

Verb

rīte

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rītan

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rice/, [ˈrice]
• Rhymes: -ice
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

Noun

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of riť