English

Rime on trees.

Noun

rime ‎(uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• (a deposition of ice): hoarfrost, frost

Derived terms

• rimy

Translations

Verb

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

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2

Middle English rime, from Old English rīm ‎(“number”), 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.

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Noun

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.

Usage notes

In reading education, "rime" refers to the vowel and the letters that come after the eventual initial consonant(s) in a syllable. For example, sit, spit, and split all have the same rime (-it). Words that rhyme often share the same rime, such as rock and sock (-ock). However, words that rhyme do not always share the same rime, such as claim and fame (-aim and -ame). Additionally, words that share the same rime do not always rhyme, such as tough and though (-ough). Rhyme and rime are not interchangeable, although they often overlap.

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

rime ‎(plural rimes)

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Etymology 4

Latin rima.

Noun

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?)

External links

• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, mire

Danish

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

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁim/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

rime f ‎(plural rimes)

1. rhyme

Verb

rime

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

Anagrams

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

Italian

Noun

rime f

1. plural of rima

Anagrams

• meri, mire, remi

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English rīm ‎(“number”).

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

Old French

Noun

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

1. story; tale; account

Synonyms

• conte, cunte

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.mi/

Verb

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

Spanish

Verb

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.