rite

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

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

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., 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.

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it.

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   I went to the Rite Aid for my prescription, then to ShopRite for a gallon of milk.

   1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
   2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

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

• rit (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

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rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

• rite de passage

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

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

rite

1. past participle of righ

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed [+ le (object) = to]
4. eager [+ chun (object) = for]

• riteacht f (“tautness”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From rītus (“rite, custom”).

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’s 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, 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
    

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

• “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.tɛ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧te

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈrite]

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of riť