riteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

名詞

rite (複数形 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.

関連する語

• ritual

語源 2

Variation of right.

形容詞

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   He's rite, you know.

派生語

副詞

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   It's rite next to my house.

間投詞

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

   Rite, let's do it.

名詞

rite (複数形 rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.

   I went to the Rite Aid for my prescription, then to ShopRite for a gallon of milk.

   1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
   2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

アナグラム

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

Latin

語源

From rītus (“rite, custom”)

副詞

rīte (not comparable)

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

参照

• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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