rite

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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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.

Anagrams

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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).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rite m (plural rites)

  1. rite

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Further reading

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rīte.

Pronunciation

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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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Further reading

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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

Derived terms

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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.

Pronunciation

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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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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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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rite

  1. nominative/accusative plural of riť