wright

See also: Wright

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/
Rhymes: -aɪt
Homophones: right, rite, write

Etymology 1

From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker; wright; workman; artificer; laborer; craftsman”), from West Germanic *wurhtijô (as in Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”) (English work). Cognate with English wrought, dated Dutch wrecht.

Noun

wright (plural wrights)

(obsolete) A builder or creator of something.

Derived terms

Translations

(obsolete) a builder or creator of something

Dutch: wrecht m, maker (nl) m, schepper (nl) m
Russian: ма́стер (ru) m (máster), строи́тель (ru) m (stroítelʹ), созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), созда́тельница (ru) f (sozdátelʹnica)

Ukrainian: творець (uk) m (tvoréć)

Etymology 2

Verb

wright (third-person singular simple present wrights, present participle wrighting, simple past and past participle wrighted)

(dated) Misspelling of write.

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