rime
EnglishEdit
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)
- (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- 1821, Thomas De Quincey, “Preliminary Confessions”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
- The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], OCLC 560168646; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), OCLC 189563, page 144:
- I rose, put on my shoes, and began to walk up and down the floor to try and warm myself. I looked out; there was rime on the window; it was snowing.
- (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- A film or slimy coating.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)
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.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
rime (plural rimes)
- (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
- (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem
- But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star ,
Holds back the blighting wings of Time,
Melts with his breath the crusty rime
- But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star ,
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)
- Obsolete form of rhyme.
Etymology 3Edit
Unknown
NounEdit
rime (plural rimes)
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
rime (plural rimes)
Further readingEdit
rime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms
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)
- to rhyme
ReferencesEdit
- “rime” in Den Danske Ordbog
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą. Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rime f (plural rimes)
- 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.
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
rime
- inflection of rimer:
Further readingEdit
- “rime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
rime f
AnagramsEdit
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.
NounEdit
rime m or f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
- Dutch: rijm
Further readingEdit
- “rime (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “rime (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English rīm (“number”).
NounEdit
rime (plural rimes)
- 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.)
Related termsEdit
- rimen (verb)
DescendantsEdit
- English: rhyme
Norwegian BokmålEdit
PronunciationEdit
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)
- to rhyme
- 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
VerbEdit
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)
- to rime
ReferencesEdit
“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (of the verbs) rima
Etymology 1Edit
From rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime
VerbEdit
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)
- to rime
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
rime
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus
NounEdit
rime f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
rime
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rimar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rimar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rimar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rimar
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
rime