rite

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

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• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     It was the capable manager's long-established custom to escort Mrs Pridger to a theatre once a week, and Saturday evening had come to be the occasion of this rite.

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.

• ritual

Variation of right.

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   He's rite, you know.

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   It's rite next to my house.

   • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it.

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie

Inherited from Middle French rite, rit m (first attested in 1479), borrowed from Latin ritus m (“rite”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

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rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

• rite de passage m
• rite byzantin m
• rite constantinopolitain m

• “rite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

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rite

1. (literary, rare) strictly in accordance with the rules
   • 2021, Jan Wilhelm, Sachenrecht (De Gruyter Handbuch)‎^[1], 7th edition, →ISBN, Rn. 1456, page 879:

     Solange die Forderung nur eine künftige ist, darf für eine rite zustande gekommene Bestellung der Hypothek auch der öffentliche Glaube des Grundbuchs (§§ 892 I, 1138) nur den Rechtsschein einer Hypothek für eine künftige Forderung begründen.

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• “rite” in Duden online
• “rite”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɨ̞tʲə/

rite

1. past participle of righ

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed [with le ‘to’]
4. eager [with chun ‘for’]

• riteacht f (“tautness”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rigthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

rite

1. past participle of rith

rite

1. exhausted, extinct

• rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Presumably from an ablative of an old third-declension form *rītis, related to rītus (“rite, custom”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.te]

rīte (not comparable)

1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
    
  • after having performed the sacrifice (with due ritual): rebus divinis (rite) perpetratis
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “rītus, -ūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

rite

1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

• whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “rite”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[4], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈriːtə/

rīte

1. first-person singular present indicative of rīten
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rīten

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈritə/

rite

1. second-person singular past indicative of rīten
2. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of rīten

Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾitɛ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[5] (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.‎^[6], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

rīte

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rītan

• IPA^(key): /rice/, [ˈrice]
• Rhymes: -ice
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of riť