Rime

English

Noun

Rime (uncountable)

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

Noun

Rime (plural Rimes)

1. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) rhyme
2. (linguistics) the 2nd part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset

Thesaurus

Jack Frost, abysm, abyss, arroyo, black frost, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crust, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, encrust, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, frost, frost line, frost smoke, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hoar, hoarfrost, hole, incision, joint, killing frost, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime frost, rupture, scissure, seam, sharp frost, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, white frost

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA: /raɪm/, SAMPA: /raIm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: rhyme

Etymology 1

Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīman (“hoarfrost”) (compare Dutch rijm, Danish rim); akin to Latvian krèims (“cream”).

Etymology 2

Middle English from Old English rīm. Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Translations

Noun

hoarfrost

Armenian: եղյամ (hy) (eġyam) Chinese: Mandarin: 霜 (cmn) (shuāng) Dutch: rijm (nl) m., rijp (nl) m. Finnish: huurre (fi) French: givre (fr) f. German: Raureif (de) m.

Greek: δροσόπαγος (el) (drosópagos) m., πάχνη (el) (páchni) f. Hungarian: zúzmara (hu) Japanese: 霜 (ja) (しも, shimo) Latvian: sarma (lv) f. Lithuanian: šarmà (lt) f., šerkšnas (lt) Romanian: brumă (ro) Russian: иней (ru) (ínej) m., изморозь (ru) (ízmoroz') f. Swedish: rimfrost (sv)

External links

• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, mire

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French

Noun

Rime f. (plural Rimes)

1. rhyme

Verb

Rime

1. first-person singular present indicative of rimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of rimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rimer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of rimer
5. second-person singular imperative of rimer

Etymology

Old French from Vulgar Latin *rimare, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”). Akin to Old English rīm (“row, series, number”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ʀim/
• Rhymes: -im

Anagrams

• émir, mire, miré, Remi, Rémi

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Italian

Noun

rime f.

1. Plural form of rima.

Anagrams

• meri, mire, remi

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Old French

Noun

Rime f. (oblique plural Rimes, nominative singular Rime, nominative plural Rimes)

1. story; tale; account

Synonyms

• conte, cunte

Descendants

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

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Portuguese

Verb

Rime

1. rimar.
2. rimar.
3. rimar.
4. rimar.

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Spanish

Verb

Rime (infinitive rimar)

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.