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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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sacred
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sacred, isacred, past participle of sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), from Old French sacrer (“to consecrate, anoint, dedicate”), from Latin sacr?re, present active infinitive of sacr?, from sacer (“sacred, holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?krós (“sacred”), from *seh?k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?k??d/
Adjective
sacred (comparative more sacred or sacreder, superlative most sacred or sacredest)
- Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
- 1882, Edward Shortland, Maori Religion and Mythology
- In doing this I particularly instructed my informant to tell his tale as if he were relating it to his own people, and to use the same words that he would use if he were recounting similar tales to them when assembled in a sacred house.
- 1955, anonymous, The Urantia Book : The Time of the Tomb:
- The cross is that high symbol of sacred service, the devotion of one's life to the welfare and salvation of one's fellows. The cross is not the symbol of the sacrifice of the innocent Son of God in the place of guilty sinners and in order to appease the wrath of an offended God, but it does stand forever, on earth and throughout a vast universe, as a sacred symbol of the good bestowing themselves upon the evil and thereby saving them by this very devotion of love.
- November 30 2016, Joe Whittle writing in The Guardian, 'We opened eyes': at Standing Rock, my fellow Native Americans make history
- Their intent was to march peacefully down a county road to DAPL headquarters, where tribal elders would pray and hold ceremony to bless the sacred sites being disturbed by pipeline construction.
- Synonyms: consecrated, hallowed
- 1882, Edward Shortland, Maori Religion and Mythology
- Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
- Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
- Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
- Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
- Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct
- (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
- Synonym: consecrated
- (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
Synonyms
- divine
- godly
- holy
Antonyms
- cursed
- damned
- profane
- unholy
- ungodly
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?k?d/
Verb
sacred
- simple past tense and past participle of sacre
Anagrams
- Cerdas, Dacres, Des Arc, caders, cadres, cedars, crased, decars, e-cards, ecards, scared
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