rime

• (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA^(key): /ɹaɪm/

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• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: rhyme

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmaz, *hrīmą (“hoarfrost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to streak; graze; touch”).

Cognate with Dutch rijm (“hoarfrost”), dialectal Bavarian Reim (“light frost, fog, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”).

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

1. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.

   Synonyms: (loosely) hoar frost, frost

   • 1821 September–October​, [Thomas De Quincey], “(please specify the page)”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC:

     The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.

   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), →OCLC, page 144:

     I rose, put on my shoes, and began to walk up and down the floor to try and warm myself. I looked out; there was rime on the window; it was snowing.

2. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. A film or slimy coating.

Rime (sense 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”).

• rimy

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

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

From Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (“number; the precise sum or aggregation of any collection of individual things or persons”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

• rhyme

rime (plural rimes)

1. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
   • 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem:

     But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star ,
     Holds back the blighting wings of Time,
     Melts with his breath the crusty rime

   Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.

2. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

   Coordinate term: onset

   Meronyms: nucleus, coda

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

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

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rime (plural rimes)

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Inherited from Middle English rim, from Latin rima (“cleft, crack”).

rime (plural rimes)

1. (obsolete) A rent or long aperture; a chink, fissure, or crack. [1600s]

• rime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

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

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

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

1. to rhyme

• “rime” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą. Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁim/

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• Rhymes: -im

rime f (plural rimes)

1. rhyme
   • 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire‎, page 43:

     Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.

     The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.

• rime riche

rime

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

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

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

rime f

1. plural of rima

• ermi, meri, mire, remi

Through Old French from Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

rime m or f

1. line of poetry, verse
2. rhyme

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: rijm

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

From Old English rīm (“number”).

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.)

• rimen (verb)

• English: rhyme

• IPA^(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

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

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

   Informasjonen han ga rimte ikke med det vi allerede viste.

   The information he gave us didn't match with what we already knew.

From rim, from Old Norse hrím.

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

1. to rime

“rime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

• (of the verbs) rima

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

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

1. to rhyme
2. to match, line up

From rim, from Old Norse hrím.

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

1. to rime

From Old Norse rimi.

rime

1. an elongated row of hills or low mountains

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

“rime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin rithmus, rhythmus.

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

1. story; tale; account

• conte, cunte

• (influenced) English: rhyme
• French: rime
• Italian: rima
• Middle English: ryme, rime

rime

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

rime

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