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rime

See also: rimé and ríme

EnglishEdit

 
Rime on trees.

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmaz, *hrīmą (“hoarfrost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to streak; graze; touch”). Cognate with Dutch rijm (“hoarfrost”), dialectal Bavarian Reim (“light frost, fow, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”).

NounEdit

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

  1. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
    Synonyms: hoarfrost, frost
  2. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  3. A film or slimy coating.
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VerbEdit

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

  1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (“number; the precise sum or aggregation of any collection of individual things or persons”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

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NounEdit

rime (plural rimes)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
  2. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Landor to this entry?)
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
  3. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
    Coordinate term: onset
    Meronyms: nucleus, coda
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

  1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Etymology 3Edit

Unknown

NounEdit

rime (plural rimes)

  1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Etymology 4Edit

Latin rima.

NounEdit

rime (plural rimes)

  1. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

VerbEdit

rime (imperative rim, infinitive at rime, present tense rimer, past tense rimede, perfect tense rimet)

  1. to rhyme

ReferencesEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”). Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʁim/
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  • Rhymes: -im

NounEdit

rime f (plural rimes)

  1. rhyme
    • 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire‎[1], page 43:
      Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.
      The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.

VerbEdit

rime

  1. inflection of rimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

ItalianEdit

NounEdit

rime f

  1. plural of rima

AnagramsEdit

Middle DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

NounEdit

rime m or f

  1. line of poetry, verse
  2. rhyme

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

  • Dutch: rijm

Further readingEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English rīm (“number”).

NounEdit

rime (plural rimes)

  1. number
    Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. — Ormulum, c1200
    (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

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DescendantsEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Etymology 1Edit

From the noun rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime

VerbEdit

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimte or rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

  1. to rhyme
  2. to match, line up
    Informasjonen han ga rimte ikke med det vi allerede viste.
    The information he gave us didn't match with what we already knew.

Etymology 2Edit

From rim, from Old Norse hrím

VerbEdit

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

  1. to rime

ReferencesEdit

“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Alternative formsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime

VerbEdit

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

  1. to rhyme
  2. to match, line up

Etymology 2Edit

From rim, from Old Norse hrím

VerbEdit

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

  1. to rime

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse rimi

NounEdit

rime

  1. an elongated row of hills or low mountains
SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old FrenchEdit

NounEdit

rime f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)

  1. story; tale; account

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DescendantsEdit

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

rime

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rimar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rimar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rimar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rimar

SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

rime

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rimar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rimar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rimar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rimar.
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