different between pride vs rath

English

Alternative forms

• pryde (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pride, from Old English pr?de, pr?te (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English pr?d (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?d/, [?p???a?d]
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Homophone: pried

Noun

pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)

1. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
2. (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

   He took pride in his work.

   He had pride of ownership in his department.

   • 1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven

     The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
   • 1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables

     Pride goeth before the fall.

4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     a bold peasantry, their country's pride

5. Show; ostentation; glory.
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
   • to be in the pride of one's life.
7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
8. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
9. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.

   A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.

10. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
11. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.

Synonyms

• (a sense of one's own worth): dignity; See also Thesaurus:pride
• (proud or disdainful behavior): conceit, disdain; See also Thesaurus:arrogance
• (lust; sexual desire): See also Thesaurus:lust
• (lamprey species): prid, sandpiper

Derived terms

• gay pride
• point of pride
• pride comes before a fall
• prideful
• pride of place
• pride parade
• prider
• Pride

Related terms

• proud

See also

• clowder, company of small felines

Translations

Verb

pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)

1. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
   • 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

     Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.

Derived terms

• prided
• priding

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pride”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• pried, re-dip, redip, riped

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -???, Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
   • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:

     There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:

     Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ?? (rath), from Sanskrit ?? (ratha).

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. A Burmese carriage of state.

Etymology 3

Adjective

rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

1. Alternative form of rathe.

Anagrams

• Arth, HART, Hart, Thar, hart, tahr, thar

Cornish

Noun

rath f (plural rathes)

1. rat

Synonyms

• (Revived Late Cornish) logojen vroas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *?ratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root *?ar- (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh?- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit ?????? (p????ti, “grant, bestow”), Latin par? (“prepare”)).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /???h/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /??a/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /??ah/

Noun

rath m (genitive singular ratha)

1. (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
2. prosperity
3. abundance
4. usefulness, good

Declension

Derived terms

• anrath (“ill-luck”)

Further reading

• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 122
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 140
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 rath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “ra?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "rath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “prosperity” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “success” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• rað

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raþ? (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/

Noun

rath n

1. wheel

Declension