different between riches vs rices

English

Etymology

From Middle English riches, plural of riche (“power, wealth”), from Old English r??e (“power, authority, dominion”). Confused with Middle English richesse (“wealth”), from Old French richesse, from riche (“rich, wealthy”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *r?ki (“rich”) from Proto-Germanic *r?kijaz (“rich, powerful”), from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to straighten, direct, make right”). Akin to Old High German r?hhi (“rich”) (German reich (“rich”)), Old English r??e (“rich”), Old English racu (“explanation, reasoning”). More at rich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???z/
• Hyphenation: rich?es
• Rhymes: -?t??z

Noun

riches pl (plural only)

1. Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
2. (figuratively) An abundance of anything desirable.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:wealth

Derived terms

• embarrassment of riches

Related terms

• rich

Translations

Anagrams

• Chiers, shicer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?/

Adjective

riches

1. plural of riche

Anagrams

• chéris

Middle English

Alternative forms

• richesse, reches

Etymology

Plural of riche.

Noun

riches (uncountable)

1. riches, wealth

Descendants

• English: riches
• Yola: reeches

References

• “riches, n. plural.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Adjective

riches pl

1. plural of riche (“rich”)

English

Noun

rices

1. plural of rice (Referring to more than one strain or variety of rice. Rice is usually uncountable.)
   • 2014, E. N. Anderson, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China (page 40)

     Indica rices have longer grains that cook drier, like most Chinese and Indian rices. Some rices, also, already had the now-common genetic variant of the starch amylose that makes them cook up sticky.

Verb

rices

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rice

Anagrams

• cires, cries, erics, icers, seric

Spanish

Verb

rices

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of rizar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of rizar.