# rite
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹaɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪt
* Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

### Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

#### Noun

rite (plural rites)
* A religious custom.
* (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
** 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.

##### Derived terms

* funeral rite
* Latin rite
* rite of passage
* water rite

##### Related terms

* ritual

##### Translations

Albanian: rit (sq) m
Arabic: طَقْس دِينِيّ m (ṭaqs dīniyy), شَعِيرَة f (šaʕīra), طَقْس m (ṭaqs)
Armenian: ծես (hy) (ces), արարողություն (araroġutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: ayin (az)
Bashkir: йола (yola)
Belarusian: абра́д m (abrád), рытуа́л m (rytuál)
Bengali: আচার (bn) (acar)
Bulgarian: о́бред (bg) m (óbred), ритуа́л (bg) m (rituál)
Burmese: အခမ်းအနား (my) (a.hkam:a.na:)
Catalan: ritus (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 儀 / 仪 (zh) (yí), 儀式 / 仪式 (zh) (yíshì), 典禮 / 典礼 (zh) (diǎnlǐ), 禮 / 礼 (zh) (lǐ)
Czech: obřad (cs) m, rituál (cs) m
Danish: ritus c, rite c
Dutch: ritus (nl) f, kerkgebruik (nl) n
Egyptian: (jrw)
Esperanto: rito (eo)
Estonian: riitus, rituaal
Finnish: riitti (fi)
French: rite (fr) m, es (fr) pl or m or m pl or f or f pl
Galician: rito (gl) m
Georgian: რიტუალი (riṭuali)
German: Ritus (de) m, Brauch (de)
Greek: τελετουργία (el) f (teletourgía)
Ancient: τελετή f (teletḗ), θέσμιον n (thésmion)
Hebrew: פולחן \ פֻּלְחָן (he) m (pulkhán)
Hindi: अनुष्ठान (hi) m (anuṣṭhān)
Hungarian: szertartás (hu), ceremónia (hu), rítus (hu)
Icelandic: helgiathöfn f, helgisiður (is) m
Indonesian: upacara (id), ritus (id)
Interlingua: rito
Italian: rito (it) m
Japanese: 儀式 (ja) (ぎしき, gishiki)
Kazakh: ырым (yrym)
Khmer: ពិធី (km) (pithii), វិធី (km) (vithii)
Korean: 의식(儀式) (ko) (uisik)
Kyrgyz: ырым (ky) (ırım)
Lao: ພິທີ (phi thī), ພິທີກຳ (phi thī kam)
Latin: rītus m, caerimōnia (la) f
Latvian: rits (lv) m, rituāls (lv) m
Lithuanian: ritualas m
Macedonian: обред m (obred), ритуа́л m (rituál)
Malay: ritus
Maori: ritenga, kawanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ritual n
Old English: sidu m
Persian: آیین (fa) (âyin)
Polish: rytuał (pl) m inan, obrządek (pl) m inan, obrzęd (pl) m inan, ryt (pl) m
Portuguese: rito (pt) m
Quechua: hayway
Romanian: ritual (ro) n, rit (ro) n
Russian: обря́д (ru) m (obrjád), ритуа́л (ru) m (rituál)
Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̀бред m, риту̀а̄л m
Roman: òbred (sh) m, ritùāl (sh) m
Slovak: obrad m, rituál m
Slovene: obred (sl) m, ritual m
Spanish: rito (es) m
Swedish: rit (sv) c
Tajik: оин (tg) (oyin)
Tatar: йола (tt) (yola)
Thai: พิธี (th) (pí-tii), พิธีกรรม (th) (pí-tii-gam)
Turkish: ayin (tr)
Ukrainian: обря́д m (obrjád), ритуа́л m (rytuál)
Uzbek: marosim (uz)
Vietnamese: lễ nghi (vi), nghi lễ (vi), nghi thức (vi)
Yoruba: orò :

### Etymology 2

Variation of right.

#### Adjective

rite (not comparable)
* Informal spelling of right.
    He's rite, you know.

##### Derived terms

* amirite
* das rite

#### Adverb

rite (not comparable)
* 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.

#### Interjection

rite
* Informal spelling of right.
    Rite, let's do it.

#### Noun

rite (plural rites)
* Informal spelling of right.

### Anagrams

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

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁit/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rite m (plural rites)
* rite

#### Derived terms

* rite de passage m
* rite byzantin m
* rite constantinopolitain m

### Further reading

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

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

rite
* (literary, rare) strictly in accordance with the rules
** 2021, Jan Wilhelm, Sachenrecht (De Gruyter Handbuch)‎, 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “rite” in Duden online
* “rite” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈɾˠɨ̞tʲə/

### Etymology 1
#### Participle

rite
* past participle of righ

#### Adjective

rite
* taut, tense
* sharp, steep
* exposed [with le ‘to’]
* eager [with chun ‘for’]

##### Derived terms

* riteacht f (“tautness”)

#### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, 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

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

rite
* past participle of rith

#### Adjective

rite
* exhausted, extinct

##### Derived terms

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

#### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

rīte (not comparable)
* according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

### References

* “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

## Maori
### Etymology

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

### Verb

rite
* to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

#### Derived terms

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

### References

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

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈriːtə/

### Verb

rīte
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of rīten
* third-person singular present subjunctive of rīten

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈritə/

### Verb

rite
* second-person singular past indicative of rīten
* first/third-person singular past subjunctive of rīten

## Murui Huitoto
### Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾitɛ]
* Hyphenation: ri‧te

### Verb

rite
* (transitive) to plant

#### Conjugation
### References

* 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

## Old High German
### Verb

rīte
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of rītan

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrice]

### Noun

rite
* nominative/accusative plural of riť