rit

• ritt, ret

From Middle English ritten (“to cut, score, slit, tear”), from Old English *rittan (“to cut, score, slit, tear,”) (compare Old High German rizzen), from Proto-West Germanic *rittjan, from Proto-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-; see *hrītaną.

Cognate with Middle Low German ritten (“to scratch”), German ritzen (“to scratch”). Compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). See also rat.

• Rhymes: -ɪt

rit (plural rits)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

rit (third-person singular simple present rits, present participle ritting, simple past and past participle ritted)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

rit (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of ritardando.

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• IRT, RTI, TIR, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

rit ?

1. rite

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

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• Hyphenation: rit
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: Rith

From Middle Dutch *rit, in Middle Dutch only sparsely attested in compounds, from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

rit m (plural ritten, diminutive ritje n)

1. a ride on a mount (animal) or man-powered vehicle
2. a drive in an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle
3. a stage or lap as part of a long tour or journey

• koninginnerit
• proefrit
• ritmeester
• rittenkoers
• rittenwedstrijd
• slotrit
• testrit
• tijdrit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of ritten
2. imperative of ritten

• tri

See the lemma.

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

rit m (plural rits)

1. Archaic spelling of rite.

See the lemma.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

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rit

1. inflection of rire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

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

• tir, tri

From Old Norse rit, from Proto-Germanic *writą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

1. writ
2. work, literary work
3. (mathematics) chart, diagram

• rita
• ritari

Uncertain, possibly substrate origin. Compare Friulian raze, Hungarian réce, Albanian rosë, Serbo-Croatian raca.

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rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós) or Latin ritus or French rite.

rit n (plural rituri)

1. rite

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)

1. (vulgar) butt

• stražnjica, zadnjica, guzica, dupe

From German Ried.

rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)

1. swamp, peat bog

• močvara, močvarna livada

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

• IPA^(key): /rít/

rȉt f

1. (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

• ríten
• rítnik

• zádnjica
• zádnjičen
• zádnjičnonôžen
• zádnjik

From Latin ritus.

rit c

1. rite

• tri-

• IPA^(key): [ríːt] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -íːt

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːt, -ýːt

rit f (definite singular rita, dative ritn, definite plural riten, dative ritåm)

1. drawn line, dash

rit

1. singular active present indicative of riit

rit

1. bone