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Webster 1913 Edition

Rath

Rath

(răth)
,
Noun.
[Ir.
rath
.]
1.
A hill or mound.
[Ireland]
Spenser.
2.
A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rath

RATH

,
Noun.
A hill. Obs.

RATH

,
Adj.
[See Ready.]
Early; coming before others, or before the usual time.
Bring the rath primrose, that forsaken dies.
We sometimes see the word rath-ripe, early ripe; but it is obsolete or nearly so. In the United States, I believe it is not used at all.

Definition 2024

Rath

Rath

See also: rath, ráth, rað, -raþ, and ráð

German

Noun

Rath m ‎(genitive Raths or Rathes, plural Räthe)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Rat which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

rath

rath

See also: Rath, ráth, rað, -raþ, and ráð

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /rɑːθ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ræθ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːθ, Rhymes: -æθ
  • Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

Noun

rath ‎(plural raths)

  1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
    • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:
      There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.
Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

rath ‎(comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

  1. Alternative form of rathe

Anagrams

Cornish

Noun

rath f ‎(plural rathes)

  1. rat

Synonyms

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rath ‎(“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸratom ‎(“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root *ɸar- ‎(“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- ‎(“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit पृणाति ‎(pṛṇā́ti, “grant, bestow”), Latin parō ‎(“prepare”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

rath m ‎(genitive singular ratha)

  1. prosperity

Declension

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009), “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 122
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009), “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 140
  • “1 rath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “raṫ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • "rath" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raþą ‎(“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *rot- ‎(“wheel”). Cognate with Old Frisian reth ‎(“wheel”), Dutch rad ‎(“wheel”), German Rad ‎(“wheel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrað/

Noun

rath n

  1. wheel

Declension

Etymology

From Old Irish ráth.

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