• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

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.

• ritt, ret

rit (plural rits)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

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.

rit (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of ritardando.

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

• IRT, RTI, TIR, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

rit m (plural ríte, definite ríti, definite plural rítet)

1. rite

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

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• Hyphenation: rit
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: Rith

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.

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

• → Indonesian: rit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rit

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

• tri

See the lemma.

• IPA^(key): /ʁit/

rit m (plural rits)

1. Archaic spelling of rite.

See the lemma.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

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rit

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

• “rit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tir, tri

From Old Norse rit, from Proto-Germanic *writą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

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

• rita
• ritari

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.

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

rit (plural rit-rit)

1. round trip

• “rit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈriːt/

rīt

1. second-person singular present imperative of rīten

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

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rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

• IPA^(key): /riːt/

rīt

1. third-person singular present indicative of rīdan

rīt

1. second-person singular present imperative of rītan

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós) or Latin ritus or French rite.

rit n (plural rituri)

1. rite

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ritь.

rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)

1. (vulgar) butt

   Synonyms: stražnjica, zadnjica, guzica, dupe

• “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from German Ried. First attested in the 18th century.^[1]

rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)

1. swamp, peat bog

   Synonyms: močvara, močvarna livada

• “rit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

• IPA^(key): /rít/

rȉt f

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• ríten
• rítnik

• zádnjica
• zádnjičen
• zádnjičnonôžen
• zádnjik

From Latin ritus.

rit c

1. rite

• rit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• tri-

rit

1. bone