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rite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write
Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- A religious custom.
- (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:
- But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:
Related terms
- ritual
Translations
Etymology 2
Variation of right.
Adjective
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
Derived terms
Adverb
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
Interjection
rite
- Informal spelling of right.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- Informal spelling of right.
- used in unique spellings of company brand names
- part of the contraction and interjection amirite
Anagrams
- REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie
French
Alternative forms
- rit (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ritus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?it/
Noun
rite m (plural rites)
- rite
Derived terms
- rite de passage
Further reading
- “rite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????t??/
Etymology 1
Participle
rite
- past participle of righ
Adjective
rite
- taut, tense
- sharp, steep
- exposed (le (“to”))
- eager (chun (“for”))
Derived terms
- riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)
Etymology 2
Participle
rite
- past participle of rith
Adjective
rite
- exhausted, extinct
Derived terms
- rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)
References
- "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Latin
Etymology
From r?tus (“rite, custom”)
Adverb
r?te (not comparable)
- according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly
References
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.
Verb
rite
- to resemble; to be like, similar, alike
Derived terms
- whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar
References
- “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??i.t?]
- Hyphenation: ri?te
Verb
rite
- (transitive) to plant
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rite]
Noun
rite
- nominative/accusative plural of ri?
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extravagance
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?æv???ns/
- Hyphenation: ex?trav?a?gance
Noun
extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- frugality
- economize
- moderation
Related terms
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
extravagance f (plural extravagances)
- extravagance
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Related terms
- extravagant
- extravagamment
Further reading
- “extravagance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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