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ritual

See also: Ritual and rituál

English

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Etymology

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From Latin adjective rītuālis, from noun rītus (“rite”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

Adjective

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ritual (comparative more ritual, superlative most ritual)

  1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
    They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.
    • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 855:
      These verses are the basis for the practice of wearing a prayer shawl (tallit) with a ritual fringe (tzitzit) on each of its four corners

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Noun

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ritual (countable and uncountable, plural rituals)

  1. A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.
    The priests carried out the religious ritual carefully.
    • 2017, Christine Honders, OCD: The Struggle with Obsessions and Compulsions, page 44:
      Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.

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Albanian

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Noun

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ritual m

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

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Declension of ritual
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ritual rituali rituale ritualet
accusative ritualin
dative rituali ritualit ritualeve ritualeve
ablative ritualesh

Further reading

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  • “ritual”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “ritual”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rituālis.

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ritual m or f (masculine and feminine plural rituals)

  1. ritual

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ritual m (plural rituals)

  1. ritual
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Danish

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Noun

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ritual n (singular definite ritualet, plural indefinite ritualer)

  1. ritual
    Synonym: ritus

Declension

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Declension of ritual
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ritual ritualet ritualer ritualerne
genitive rituals ritualets ritualers ritualernes

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Ladin

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Pronunciation

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  This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

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ritual m (feminine singular rituala, masculine plural rituai, feminine plural rituales)

  1. ritual

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

Noun

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ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual or ritualer, definite plural rituala or ritualene)

  1. ritual

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

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ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual, definite plural rituala)

  1. ritual

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁi.tuˈaw/ [hi.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁiˈtwaw/ [hiˈtwaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁi.tuˈaw/ [χi.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁiˈtwaw/ [χiˈtwaʊ̯]
 

  • Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

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ritual m or f (plural rituais)

  1. ritual

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ritual m (plural rituais)

  1. ritual

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French rituel or Italian rituale.

Noun

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ritual n (plural rituali)

  1. ritual

Declension

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Declension of ritual
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ritual ritualul rituali ritualile
genitive-dative ritual ritualului rituali ritualilor
vocative ritualule ritualilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ritǔaːl/
  • Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

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ritùāl m (Cyrillic spelling риту̀а̄л)

  1. ritual

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Declension of ritual
singular plural
nominative ritùāl rituali
genitive rituála rituala
dative ritualu ritualima
accusative ritual rituale
vocative rituale rituali
locative ritualu ritualima
instrumental ritualom ritualima

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin rituālis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /riˈtwal/ [riˈt̪wal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ri‧tual

Adjective

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ritual m or f (masculine and feminine plural rituales)

  1. ritual

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Noun

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ritual m (plural rituales)

  1. rite
  2. ritual
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Swedish

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Noun

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ritual c or n

  1. ritual (set of ceremonial actions, or set of actions more generally, like in English)
    den dagliga ritualen
    the daily ritual

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Neuter gender is uncommon.

Declension

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Declension of ritual
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ritual rituals
definite ritualen ritualens
plural indefinite ritualer ritualers
definite ritualerna ritualernas
Declension of ritual
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ritual rituals
definite ritualet ritualets
plural indefinite ritual rituals
definite ritualen ritualens

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