rita

rita (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of rta (“Vedic principle”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːta/
• Rhymes: -iːta
• Homophones: ryta, ritað

From Old Norse rytr.

rita f (genitive singular ritu, plural ritur)

1. kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Declension of rita
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rita	ritan	ritur	riturnar
accusative	ritu	rituna	ritur	riturnar
dative	ritu	rituni	ritum	ritunum
genitive	ritu	ritunnar	rita	ritanna

• ryta

From Old Norse ríta, rita, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).

rita (third person singular past indicative ritaði, third person plural past indicative ritað, supine ritað)

1. to write, to inscribe

Conjugation of rita (group v-30)
infinitive	rita
supine	ritað
participle (a6)1	ritandi	ritaður
	present	past
first singular	riti	ritaði
second singular	ritar	ritaði
third singular	ritar	ritaði
plural	rita	ritaðu
	imperative
singular	rita!
plural	ritið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

• skriva

From Proto-Finnic *rita, possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *rita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈritɑ/, [ˈrit̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -itɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ri‧ta

rita

1. (hunting) A box trap with three walls with the exit closed once the snare is engaged.

• “rita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• tari

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rita (transitive)

1. to boil

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[2], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 370

• IPA^(key): /rɪta/

rita

1. news
2. fame; reputation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːta/
• Rhymes: -ɪːta

From Old Norse rytr.

rita f (genitive singular ritu, nominative plural ritur)

1. black-legged kittiwake, kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

• →? Translingual: Rissa

From Old Norse ríta, rita, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).

rita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ritaði, supine ritað)

1. to write, to inscribe

• (to write): skrifa

• rita fullum stöfum (write unabbreviated)
• rita orð fullum stöfum (write a word unabbreviated)

• rit
• ritari
• ritning

rita

1. indefinite genitive plural of rit

rita m

1. genitive singular of rits

• IPA^(key): [ˈrʲɪt̪ɐ]

rìta

1. third-person singular present of risti
2. third-person plural present of risti

• rite (Bokmål also)

From Old Norse ríta, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).

rita (present tense ritar, past tense rita, past participle rita, passive infinitive ritast, present participle ritande, imperative rita/rit)

1. to sketch vaguely, to carve, to write

• “rita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish hrīta, from Old Norse hríta, from Proto-Germanic *hrītaną (“to draw, to scratch”).

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rita (present ritar, preterite ritade, supine ritat, imperative rita)

1. to draw (usually simpler, more line-based pictures or drawings – compare teckna)

   Barnen gillar att rita

   The children like to draw

2. to design (by making a drawing)

   Huset är ritat av Nisse

   The house is designed ("drawn") by Nisse

• avrita
• ritare
• ritbord
• ritbräde
• ritning
• ritstift

• krita
• ritsa
• skissa
• teckna

• rita in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rita in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rita in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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