ritual

• rituall (obsolete)

From Latin adjective rītuālis, from noun rītuum (“rite”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪ.t͡ʃu.əl/

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ritual (comparative more ritual, superlative most ritual)

1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber; Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 855:

     These verses are the basis for the practice of wearing a prayer shawl (tallit) with a ritual fringe (tzitzit) on each of its four corners

   They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.

• ritually

ritual (countable and uncountable, plural rituals)

1. A rite; a repeated set of actions.

   The priests carried out the religious ritual carefully.

   • 2017, Christine Honders, OCD: The Struggle with Obsessions and Compulsions (page 44)

     Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.

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

• litura

From Latin ritualis.

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

ritual (masculine and feminine plural rituals)

1. ritual

ritual m (plural rituals)

1. ritual

• ritu

• “ritual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ritual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˌʁituˈæˀl]

ritual n (singular definite ritualet, plural indefinite ritualer)

1. ritual

   Synonym: ritus

• “ritual” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

1. ritual

From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

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

1. ritual

• “ritual” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

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

1. ritual

• “ritual” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

ritual m or f (plural rituais)

1. ritual

ritual m (plural rituais)

1. ritual

From French rituel or Italian rituale.

ritual n (plural rituali)

1. ritual

• IPA^(key): /ritǔaːl/
• Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

ritùāl m (Cyrillic spelling риту̀а̄л)

1. ritual

From Latin ritualis.

• IPA^(key): /riˈtwal/ [riˈt̪wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ri‧tual

ritual (plural rituales)

1. ritual

ritual m (plural rituales)

1. rite
2. ritual

• ritualismo
• ritualista
• ritualmente

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

ritual c or n

1. ritual

• rit
• rituell

• ritual in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ritual in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ritual in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)