rite

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 141–42:

     But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.

• ritual

Variation of right.

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   He's rite, you know.

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   It's rite next to my house.

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it...

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   I know rite from wrong.

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

• rit (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

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rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

• “rite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/

rite

1. past participle of righ

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed (le (“to”))
4. eager (chun (“for”))

• riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)

rite

1. past participle of rith

rite

1. exhausted, extinct

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

• "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From rītus (“rite, custom”)

rīte (not comparable)

1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

• 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, 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
    

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

rite

1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

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