# rit
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɪt/
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Alternative forms

* ritt, ret

#### Noun

rit (plural rits)
* (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

#### Verb

rit (third-person singular simple present rits, present participle ritting, simple past and past participle ritted)
* (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
* (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
* (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

rit (not comparable)
* Abbreviation of ritardando.

### References

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

### Anagrams

* IRT, RTI, TIR, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

## Albanian
### Noun

rit ?
* rite

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɪt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: rit
* Rhymes: -ɪt
* Homophone: Rith

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

rit m (plural ritten, diminutive ritje n)
* a ride on a mount (animal) or man-powered vehicle
* a drive in an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle
* a stage or lap as part of a long tour or journey

##### Derived terms

* afrit
* inrit
* koninginnerit
* proefrit
* ritmeester
* rittenkaart
* rittenkoers
* rittenwedstrijd
* slotrit
* testrit
* tijdrit
* toerit
* uitrit

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: rit

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

rit
* inflection of ritten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* tri

## French
### Etymology 1

See the lemma.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁit/

#### Noun

rit m (plural rits)
* Archaic spelling of rite.

### Etymology 2

See the lemma.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁi/
* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

rit
* inflection of rire:
** third-person singular present indicative
** third-person singular past historic

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* tir, tri

## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɪːt/
* Rhymes: -ɪːt

### Noun

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)
* writ
* work, literary work
* (mathematics) chart, diagram

#### Derived terms

* fylgirit
* rithöfundur
* ritröð
* ritsafn
* dreifirit (“correlation diagram, dispersion diagram, scattergram”)
* Dynkin-rit (“Dynkin diagram”)
* eftirlitsrit (“control chart”)
* eiginfylgnirit (“autocorrellogram”)
* fallrit (“functional graph, graph”)
* flæðirit (“flow chart”)
* fylgnirit (“correlogram”)
* hyrnurit (“simplex algorithm”)
* línurit (“functional graph, graph”)
* myndrit (“pictogram”)
* prósentustöplarit, hlutfallsstöplarit (“band chart”)
* punktarit (“correlation diagram, dispersion diagram, scattergram”)
* sjálffylgnirit (“autocorrellogram”)
* skífurit (“circular chart, circular graph, pie chart”)
* stuðlarit (“area histogram, histogram”)
* stöplarit (“bar diagram, column diagram”)
* súlurit (“area histogram, histogram”)
* tíðnirit (“frequency diagram”)
* varprit (“functional graph, graph”)
* venslarit (“graph”)
* örvarit (“diagram”)
* leikrit
* ljósrit (“photocopy”)
* reiknirit
* ritmál

#### Related terms

* rita
* ritari

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rit (literally “ride”), from Middle Dutch *rit, from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈrit/ [ˈrɪt̪̚]
* Rhymes: -it
* Syllabification: rit

### Noun

rit (plural rit-rit)
* round trip

#### Derived terms

* ritase
* ritasi

### Further reading

* “rit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈriːt/

### Verb

rīt
* second-person singular present imperative of rīten

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

rit m (plural rits)
* duck

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /riːt/

### Verb

rīt
* third-person singular present indicative of rīdan

## Old High German
### Verb

rīt
* second-person singular present imperative of rītan

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

rit n (plural rituri)
* rite

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ritь.

#### Noun

rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)
* (vulgar) butt
    Synonyms: stražnjica, zadnjica, guzica, dupe

#### Further reading

* “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Ried. First attested in the 18th century.

#### Noun

rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)
* swamp, peat bog
    Synonyms: močvara, močvarna livada

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “rit”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 302

### Further reading

* “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rít/

### Noun

rȉt f
* (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

#### Derived terms

* ríten
* rítnik

### See also

* zádnjica
* zádnjičen
* zádnjičnonôžen
* zádnjik

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin ritus.

### Noun

rit c
* rite

#### Declension
### References

* rit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* rit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* rit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* tri-

## Zaniza Zapotec
### Noun

rit
* bone