rit

Alternative forms

• ritt, ret

Etymology

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-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”) (compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). Cognate with German ritzen (“to scratch”). See also rat.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

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.

References

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

Abbreviation

rit

1. ritardando

Anagrams

• IRT, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

Noun

rit ?

1. rite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Possibly a borrowing from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Anagrams

• tri

Etymology

Latin ritus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. rite

Verb

rit

1. third-person singular present indicative of rire
2. third-person singular past historic of rire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tir, tri

Etymology

From Old Norse rit.

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

Noun

rit

1. water

References

• Paul K. Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus (1972, →ISBN, page 61 (rit)
• Proto-Northern-Burmic Reconstruction (SIL) (ɣit⁴)
• Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wan Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing) (ɣək³¹)

Noun

rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

Etymology 2

From German Ried.

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrít/
• Tonal orthography: rȉt

Noun

rìt f (genitive ríti, nominative plural ríti)

1. (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

See also

• zádnjica
• zádnjičen
• zádnjičnonôžen
• zádnjik

Noun

rit c

1. rite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ríːt] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -íːt

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːt, -ýːt

Noun

rit f (definite singular rita, dative ritn, definite plural riten, dative ritåm)

1. drawn line, dash

Verb

rit

1. singular active present indicative of riit