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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ret"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Retta.

Symbol

ret

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Retta.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

Verb

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

  1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
    • 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVIII:
      the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 621:
      the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Alternative forms

Adjective

ret

  1. Abbreviation of retired.
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

ret (plural rets)

  1. (printing, historical) Clipping of reiteration.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

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Acehnese

Pronunciation

Noun

ret

  1. road

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin rete (“net”). Cognate with English rete.

Noun

ret m (plural rets)

  1. hairnet

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ret

  1. inflection of retre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ret, from Proto-Slavic *rъtъ. Compare Russian рот (rot, “mouth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ret m inan (diminutive rtík)

  1. lip

Declension

Declension of ret (hard masculine inanimate mixed-reducible)
More information singular, plural ...

1Literary.

Derived terms

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Danish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós, hence Latin rēctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós, “stretched out”).

Adjective

ret (plural and definite singular attributive rette)

  1. straight
    en ret linje
    a straight line
    Synonym: lige
  2. right, proper
  3. rightful
    den rette arving
    the rightful heir
    Synonym: retmæssig Antonym: uretmæssig
  4. (knitting, also used adverbially) plain, knitwise
    Antonym: vrang
    Strik skiftevis tre masker ret og to vrang.
    Alternately, knit three stitches and purl two. (lit.: "knit three stitches knitwise and two purlwise")

Inflection

More information positive, comparative ...

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Adverb

ret

  1. straight
  2. rightly, properly
  3. rather, quite
    Han er ret høj.
    He is rather tall.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtuz, related to the adjective *rehtaz. The Danish word has been influenced by the German cognates Recht (“right, law”) and Gericht (“court”). The meaning “course of food” is influenced by Middle Low German richte and German Gericht.

Noun

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

  1. (uncountable) justice, law
    Synonyms: jura, lov, justits
  2. court, courtroom, lawcourt (institution)
  3. courtroom (physical location)
    • 2016, Louise Damløv, Cecilie Kallestrup, Tre meter fra Breivik: En beretning fra Nordens største terrorretssag, Informations Forlag, →ISBN:
      Kun omkring halvdelen af de vidner, forsvaret havde indkaldt for at sandsynliggøre, at Breiviks ideologi ikke var galemandssnak, mødte op i retten.
      Only about half of the witness that the defense had summoned to support that Brevik's ideology was not the talk of a madman appeared in court.
    • 2017, Nadine Gordimer, translated by Finn Holten Hansen, Æresgæst, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      Retten var fyldt, og ansigter blev ved med at kigge ind ad vinduerne fra en voksende mængde udenfor.
      The courtroom was full, and faces kept looking in through the windows from a growing crowd outside.
    Synonym: retssal
  4. (uncountable) right, entitlement
    Alle mennesker har ret til basal respekt.
    All humans have a right to basic respect.
    Synonym: rettighed
  5. dish, course (of food)
  6. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric')
Declension
More information common gender, singular ...

References

“ret,1” in Den Danske Ordbog “ret,2” in Den Danske Ordbog “ret,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ret

  1. imperative of rette
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Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rъtъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ret m inan

  1. lip
  2. edge (of a vessel)

Declension

Declension of ret (hard o-stem reducible)
More information singular, dual ...
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

  • Czech: ret

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Polish

Tok Pisin

Turkish

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