different between ritual vs wont

English

Alternative forms

• rituall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin adjective r?tu?lis, from noun r?tuum (“rite”), + adjective suffix -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t?u.?l/

Adjective

ritual (comparative more ritual, superlative most ritual)

1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.

Derived terms

• ritually

Translations

Noun

ritual (countable and uncountable, plural rituals)

1. rite; a repeated set of actions

Derived terms

• ritualisation, ritualization
• ritualise, ritualize
• ritualist
• ritualistic
• ritually

Translations

Anagrams

• litura

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ritualis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ri.tu?al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ritual (masculine and feminine plural rituals)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituals)

1. ritual

Related terms

• ritu

Further reading

• “ritual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ritual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ritual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ritual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??itu?æ?l]

Noun

ritual n (singular definite ritualet, plural indefinite ritualer)

1. ritual

   Synonym: ritus

Declension

References

• “ritual” in Den Danske Ordbog

Ladin

Pronunciation

Adjective

ritual m (feminine singular rituala, masculine plural rituai, feminine plural rituales)

1. ritual

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual or ritualer, definite plural rituala or ritualene)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual, definite plural rituala)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?twa?/

Adjective

ritual m or f (plural rituais, comparable)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituais)

1. ritual

Romanian

Etymology

From French rituel or Italian rituale.

Noun

ritual n (plural rituali)

1. ritual

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit?a?l/
• Hyphenation: ri?tu?al

Noun

ritù?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. ritual

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?twal/, [ri?t?wal]

Adjective

ritual (plural rituales)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituales)

1. rite

Derived terms

• ritualismo
• ritualista

Further reading

• “ritual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??nt/, /w?nt/
• (General American) enPR: w?nt, wônt, w?nt, w?nt, IPA^(key): /w?nt/, /w?nt/, /wo?nt/, /w?nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt
• Homophone: want (some pronunciations)
• Homophone: won't (some pronunciations)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; apparently a conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and wont (participle adjective, below). Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”) and Dutch gewoonte. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win”); more there.

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Noun

wont (usually uncountable, plural wonts)

1. (archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk; Erda? M. Göknar, transl., “I am Called Black”, in My Name Is Red, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, ?ISBN, page 62:

     With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont, but after a while I realized I couldn't jack off—proof well enough that I'd fallen in love again after twelve years!

Translations

See also

• meo more

Etymology 2

From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ?ewunod, past participle of ?ewunian. The verb is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

wont (not comparable)

1. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, ?OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, ?OCLC:

     What be the ?weet delights of learning a trea?ure, / That wont with Comick ?ock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with plea?ure / The li?tners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]

Derived terms

• unwont
• use and wont
• wontly

Translations

See also

• prone to
• used to

Verb

wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
   • 1751, [Thomas Gray], An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M[ary] Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, ?OCLC; republished as “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, volume IV, 2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758, ?OCLC, page 5:

     On ?ome fond brea?t the parting ?oul relies, / Some pious drops the clo?ing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our A?hes live their wonted Fires.

Translations

Anagrams

• Town, nowt, town

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wonte, wontt, woont

Etymology

From Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?nt/, /w??nt/

Noun

wont (plural wontes)

1. mole (Talpa europea)

   Synonyms: moldewarpe, molle

Descendants

• English: want (dialectal)
• Scots: want

References

• “wont(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.