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rite

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rite"

English

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Etymology 1

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Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

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rite (plural rites)

  1. A religious custom.
  2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
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Etymology 2

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Variation of right.

Adjective

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rite (not comparable)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    He's rite, you know.
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Adverb

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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

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rite

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    Rite, let's do it.

Noun

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rite (plural rites)

  1. Informal spelling of right.

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French

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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rite m (plural rites)

  1. rite

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rīte.

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Adverb

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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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

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  • “rite” in Duden online
  • “rite” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Participle

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rite

  1. past participle of righ

Adjective

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rite

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

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Participle

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rite

  1. past participle of rith

Adjective

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rite

  1. exhausted, extinct
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Latin

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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rīte (not comparable)

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

References

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  • “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[2], 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

Maori

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Etymology

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

Verb

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rite

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

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References

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

Murui Huitoto

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Etymology

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Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

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

Verb

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rite

  1. (transitive) to plant

Conjugation

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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
riño! riñokai! riñeno! riza! riye riga riyɨ riñega riñeyɨ rikana
Conditional 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.
real hypothetical immediate
ria rina rikaina

References

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  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[3] (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.‎[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Slovak

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Noun

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rite

  1. nominative/accusative plural of riť
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