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rit

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rit"

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English ritten (“to cut, score, slit, tear”), from Old English *rittan (“to cut, score, slit, tear,”) (compare Old High German rizzen), from Proto-West Germanic *rittjan, from Proto-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-; see *hrītaną.

Cognate with Middle Low German ritten (“to scratch”), German ritzen (“to scratch”). Compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). See also rat.

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Noun

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rit (plural rits)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

Verb

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rit (third-person singular simple present rits, present participle ritting, simple past and past participle ritted)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

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Adverb

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rit (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of ritardando.

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Albanian

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Noun

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rit m (plural ríte, definite ríti, definite plural rítet)

  1. rite

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /rɪt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: rit
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • Homophone: Rith

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch *rit, in Middle Dutch only sparsely attested in compounds, from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

Noun

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rit m (plural ritten, diminutive ritje n)

  1. a ride on a mount (animal) or man-powered vehicle
  2. a drive in an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle
  3. a stage or lap as part of a long tour or journey
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Descendants
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  • → Indonesian: rit

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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rit

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

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French

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Etymology 1

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See the lemma.

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Noun

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rit m (plural rits)

  1. Archaic spelling of rite.

Etymology 2

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See the lemma.

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rit

  1. inflection of rire:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person singular past historic

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rit, from Proto-Germanic *writą.

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Noun

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rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

  1. writ
  2. work, literary work
  3. (mathematics) chart, diagram

Declension

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Declension of rit (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rit ritið rit ritin
accusative rit ritið rit ritin
dative riti ritinu ritum ritunum
genitive rits ritsins rita ritanna

Derived terms

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terms derived from rit meaning a literary work
terms derived from rit meaning a chart or diagram
terms derived from rit pertaining to writing
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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch rit (literally “ride”), from Middle Dutch *rit, from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

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Noun

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rit (plural rit-rit)

  1. round trip

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Middle High German

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  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈriːt/

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rīt

  1. second-person singular present imperative of rīten

Occitan

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Etymology

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Uncertain, possibly substrate origin. Compare Friulian raze, Hungarian réce, Albanian rosë, Serbo-Croatian raca.

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Noun

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rit m (plural rits)

  1. duck

Old English

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rīt

  1. third-person singular present indicative of rīdan

Old High German

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rīt

  1. second-person singular present imperative of rītan

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós) or Latin ritus or French rite.

Noun

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rit n (plural rituri)

  1. rite

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Declension of rit
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative rit ritul rituri riturile
genitive-dative rit ritului rituri riturilor
vocative ritule riturilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ritь.

Noun

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rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)

  1. (vulgar) butt
    Synonyms: stražnjica, zadnjica, guzica, dupe

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  • “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German Ried. First attested in the 18th century.[1]

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rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)

  1. swamp, peat bog
    Synonyms: močvara, močvarna livada

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “rit”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 302

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  • “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

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Noun

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rȉt f

  1. (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

Declension

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, i-stem
nom. sing. rít
gen. sing. ríti
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		rít ríti ríti
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		ríti ríti ríti
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		ríti rítma rítim
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		rít ríti ríti
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		ríti rítih rítih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		rítjo rítma rítmi

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin ritus.

Noun

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rit c

  1. rite

Declension

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Declension of rit
nominative genitive
singular indefinite rit rits
definite riten ritens
plural indefinite riter riters
definite riterna riternas

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Zaniza Zapotec

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Noun

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rit

  1. bone
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