rit

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rit"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Ritarungo.

Symbol

rit

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ritarungo terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. (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)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

Derived terms

• torit

Etymology 2

Adverb

rit (not comparable)

1. 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 m (plural ríte, definite ríti, definite plural rítet)

1. rite

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

• Audio:

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• 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)

1. a ride on a mount (animal) or man-powered vehicle
2. a drive in an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle
3. a stage or lap as part of a long tour or journey

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: rit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rit

1. inflection of ritten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• tri

French

Etymology 1

See the lemma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. archaic spelling of rite

Etymology 2

See the lemma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

• Audio:

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Verb

rit

1. inflection of rire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. 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^(key): /ˈrɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

Noun

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

1. writ
2. work, literary work
3. (mathematics) chart, diagram

Declension

Declension of rit (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rit	ritið	rit	ritin
accusative	rit	ritið	rit	ritin
dative	riti	ritinu	ritum	ritunum
genitive	rits	ritsins	rita	ritanna

Derived terms

terms derived from rit meaning a literary work

• fylgirit
• rithöfundur
• ritröð
• ritsafn

terms derived from rit meaning a chart or diagram

• 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”)

terms derived from rit pertaining to writing

• 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^(key): /ˈrit/ [ˈrɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: rit

Noun

rit (plural rit-rit)

1. round trip

Derived terms

• ritase
• ritasi

Further reading

• “rit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈriːt/

Verb

rīt

1. second-person singular present imperative of rīten

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *rik.

Adjective

rit (stem II rih)

1. heavy

   Antonym: zâng

Further reading

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “rit”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːt/

Verb

rīt

1. third-person singular present indicative of rīdan

Old High German

Verb

rīt

1. 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)

1. rite

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rit	ritul		rituri	riturile
genitive-dative	rit	ritului		rituri	riturilor
vocative	ritule			riturilor