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rime

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: rīm, IPA^(key): /ɹaɪm/
• Homophone: rhyme
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).

The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.)

Noun

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

2. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).

   Coordinate terms: dew, glaze
3. (figurative)
   1. A film or slimy coating.
   2. White hair as an indication of old age.
4. (meteorology)
   2. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.

      Synonyms: frost, (loosely) hoar frost

   3. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
5. (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.

Usage notes

Rime (sense 3.1) technically differs from hoar frost, as the latter is formed by water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation (“transformation directly into ice crystals without first turning into liquid water”).

Derived terms

• rimed (adjective)
• rimy

Translations

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. (transitive)
   1. To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
   2. (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
2. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.

Derived terms

• riming (adjective, noun)

Translations

Etymology 2

A variant of rhyme (noun and verb), from Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical sound in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”, noun), and Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”, verb): see further at rhyme.

Noun

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

1. Archaic spelling of rhyme (“word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end, etc.)
2. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).

Derived terms

• rime book
• rimeless
• rime dictionary

Translations

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. Archaic spelling of rhyme.

Derived terms

• rimer (obsolete)

Etymology 3

From Middle English rimen, rime (“to count, enumerate”) [and other forms], from Old English rīman, rȳman (“to count, number, reckon; to calculate, compute, count up; to enumerate, recount; to account, esteem as”) (rare), from Proto-Germanic *rīmijaną, *rīmaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(a)rēy- (“to add; to count; to customize; to order, regulate”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”), ultimately from *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”), and thus a doublet of rhyme.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. (ambitransitive, Lincolnshire, archaic) Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.

   Synonym: enumerate

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English rimen, rime (“to clear (a way); to make room for (something); to open up (something); to prepare (something)”) [and other forms], from Old English rīman, rȳman (“to make roomy, enlarge, extend, spread, widen; to make clear by removing obstructions, to clear a way, clear, open up; to amplify; to prolong”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *rūmijan (“to clear out, make room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmijaną (“to clear out, make room”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“to open; wide”). Doublet of room.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed) (transitive)

1. Synonym of ream
   1. To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
   2. To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.

Derived terms

• ream (“to enlarge (a hole), etc.”) (possibly)
• rimer

Translations

Etymology 5

From Irish ruaim, from Old Irish rúam (“alder tree; alder bark; dye for wool made from alder bark; dun or red colour”) (probably whence Irish ruaimnigh, Old Irish rúamnaigid (“to dye red”)); further etymology unknown.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.

Derived terms

• riming (noun)

Translations

Etymology 6

The noun is derived from Late Middle English rim (“cleft, crack, fissure”), from Latin rīma (“chink, cleft, crack, fissure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reyH- (“to cut; to tear”). Doublet of rima.

The verb is derived from Latin rīmārī, the present active infinitive of rīmor (“to explore; to probe; to search”), from rīma (see above) + -or.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. (obsolete) A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip. [from early 17th c.]

Related terms

• rima

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Followed by into: to probe, to pry.

References

Further reading

• rime ice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• syllable – rime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rime (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “RIME, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 114–115: “1. Hoar-frost; […] 2. A fog; a chill, frosty mist; a sea-mist.”
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “RIME, v.¹”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 115, column 1: “To enlarge a bored hole by turning round in it a tool with sharp cutting or scraping edges”
• Eugene E. Loos [et al.], editors (2003), “rime”, in Glossary of Linguistic Terms, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, Remi, emir, meri, mire, reim, riem

Danish

Etymology

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, infinitive at rime, present tense rimer, past tense rimede, perfect tense rimet)

1. to rhyme

References

• “rime” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rime, from Old French rime, which see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁim/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

rime f (plural rimes)

1. rhyme

Derived terms

• rime riche

Verb

rime

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

Italian

Noun

rime f

1. plural of rima

Anagrams

• ermi, meri, mire, remi

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

Noun

rime m or f

1. line of poetry, verse
2. rhyme

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: rijm

Further reading

• “rime (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “rime (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle English

Etymology

Uncertain. Either of Germanic origin, from Old English rīm (“number”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“counting”) or from Old French rime, from Medieval Latin rhythmus (“cadence”).

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. number

   Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. — Ormulum, c1200

   (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

Related terms

• rimen (verb)

Descendants

• English: rhyme

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Etymology 1

From the noun rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimte or rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

1. to rhyme
2. to match, line up

Etymology 2

From rim, from Old Norse hrím.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

1. to rime

References

“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Alternative forms

• rima (of the verbs)

Etymology 1

From rim, from Old Norse rím, from French rime.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

1. to rhyme
2. to match, line up

Etymology 2

From rim, from Old Norse hrím.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

1. to rime

Etymology 3

From Old Norse rimi.

Noun

rime

1. an elongated row of hills or low mountains

Synonyms

• høgdedrag (Bokmål also)
• jordrygg (Bokmål also)
• rinde

References

“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈriː.me/

Verb

rīme

1. inflection of rīman:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Old French

Etymology

Uncertain. Either of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīm, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“counting”) or from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus (“cadence”).

Noun

rime oblique singular, f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)

1. rhyme
2. story, tale, account

   Synonyms: conte, cunte

Descendants

• French: rime
• Italian: rima
• >? Middle English: ryme, rime
  • English: rhyme

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

rime

1. inflection of rimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

rime

1. inflection of rimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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