different between hoarfrost vs rime

English

Alternative forms

• hoar frost, hoar-frost

Etymology

From Middle English horfrost, hoorfrost, hore vrost, equivalent to hoar +? frost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)f??st/

Noun

hoarfrost (usually uncountable, plural hoarfrosts)

1. Dewdrops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.

   Coordinate terms: dew, glaze, rime

Related terms

• hoar

Translations

Further reading

• hoarfrost on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /?a?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m
• Homophone: rhyme

Etymology 1

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hr?m, from Proto-Germanic *hr?maz, *hr?m? (“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”).

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• rimy

Translations

Verb

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

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
2. (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

   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

Translations

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Etymology 4

Latin rima.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Further reading

• rime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, emir, meri, mire, reim, riem

Danish

Etymology

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

Verb

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

1. to rhyme

References

• “rime” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *r?m or Old High German r?m (“series, row, number”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m?. Akin to Old English r?m (“row, series, number”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

rime f (plural rimes)

1. rhyme

Verb

rime

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

Further reading

• “rime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

Italian

Noun

rime f

1. plural of rima

Anagrams

• meri, mire, remi

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

Noun

rime m or f

1. line of poetry, verse
2. rhyme

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: rijm

Further reading

• “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 English

Etymology

From Old English r?m (“number”).

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. number

   Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrti?, Off fowwerr siþe tene. — Ormulum, c1200

   (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

Related terms

• rimen (verb)

Descendants

• English: rhyme

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?.me/, [??i?.m?]

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

Etymology 2

From rim, from Old Norse hrím

Verb

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

1. to rime

References

“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?.me/, [??i?.m?]

Alternative forms

• (of the verbs) rima

Etymology 1

From rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime

Verb

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

1. to rhyme
2. to match, line up

Etymology 2

From rim, from Old Norse hrím

Verb

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

1. to rime

Etymology 3

From Old Norse rimi

Noun

rime

1. an elongated row of hills or low mountains

Synonyms

• høgdedrag (Bokmål also)
• jordrygg (Bokmål also)
• rinde

References

“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus

Noun

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

1. story; tale; account

Synonyms

• conte, cunte

Descendants

• (influenced) English: rhyme
• French: rime
• Italian: rima
• Middle English: ryme, rime

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??i.mi/

Verb

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

Spanish

Verb

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.