rime

• (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA^(key): /ɹaɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: rhyme

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English 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, fow, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”), Latvian krèims (“cream”), Latin bruma (“winter solstice”).

rime (uncountable)

1. (meteorology, uncountable) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.

   Synonyms: hoarfrost, frost

   • De Quincey

     The trees were now covered with rime.

   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, Hunger, translated by George Egerton, Part III, page 167

     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, uncountable) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. (uncountable) A film or slimy coating.

• 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. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
2. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Landor to this entry?)

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

3. (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.

Latin rima.

rime (plural rimes)

1. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

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

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

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”). Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁim/

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• Rhymes: -im

rime f (plural rimes)

1. rhyme

rime

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

• “rime” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

rime f

1. plural of rima

• meri, mire, remi

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
• “rime (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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.

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.mi/

rime

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rimar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rimar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rimar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rimar

rime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rimar.