different between rident vs ident

English

Etymology

From Latin ridens, present participle of ridere (“to laugh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?d?nt/

Adjective

rident (comparative more rident, superlative most rident)

1. laughing
   • 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers

     a smile so wide and steady , so exceedingly rident

Anagrams

• Tinder, dirten, tinder, trined

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id/

Verb

rident

1. third-person plural present indicative of rider
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of rider

Anagrams

• dirent
• rendit, rendît

Latin

Verb

r?dent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of r?de?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?nt/

Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe +? -and and/or ithe +? -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

Alternative forms

• eident (Scotland)

Adjective

ident (comparative more ident, superlative most ident)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.

Derived terms

• idently

Etymology 2

Shortened form of identification.

Noun

ident (plural idents)

1. Identification.
2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
4. Identifier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• denti-, detin, indet., teind, tiend, tined