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pomp
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from ????? (pémp?, “I send”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?mp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
pomp (countable and uncountable, plural pomps)
- Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
- A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
Related terms
- pompous
- pomposity
- hypnopompic
Derived terms
- pomp and circumstance
Translations
Verb
pomp (third-person singular simple present pomps, present participle pomping, simple past and past participle pomped)
- (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
- pomp'd for those hard trifles
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
Further reading
- pomp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pomp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pomp at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pomp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch pomp, from Middle Dutch pompe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?mp/
Noun
pomp (plural pompe, diminutive pompie)
- pump (device for moving liquid or gas)
Danish
Etymology
From German Pomp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?mp/, [p??m?b?]
Noun
pomp c (singular definite pompen, not used in plural form)
- pomp (show of magnificence)
Synonyms
- pragt
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch pompe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?mp/
- Hyphenation: pomp
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
pomp f (plural pompen, diminutive pompje n)
- pump (device for moving liquid or gas)
Derived terms
- benzinepomp
- bierpomp
- fietspomp
- maagpomp
- pompen
- scheepspomp
- stadspomp
- voetpomp
- waterpomp
Descendants
- Afrikaans: pomp
- ? Indonesian: pompa
- ? Japanese: ???
- ? Sranan Tongo: pompu
- ? Aukan: pompu
Icelandic
Etymology
Probably a loan word from the Danish pomp, from the French pompe, from the Latin pompa (“display, parade, procession”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??m?p/
- Rhymes: -?m?p
Noun
pomp n (genitive singular pomps)
- ceremony, pomp
Declension
Synonyms
- (ceremony, pomp): viðhöfn, skraut
Derived terms
- pomp og prakt
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rite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write
Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- A religious custom.
- (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:
- But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:
Related terms
- ritual
Translations
Etymology 2
Variation of right.
Adjective
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
Derived terms
Adverb
rite (not comparable)
- Informal spelling of right.
Interjection
rite
- Informal spelling of right.
Noun
rite (plural rites)
- Informal spelling of right.
- used in unique spellings of company brand names
- part of the contraction and interjection amirite
Anagrams
- REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie
French
Alternative forms
- rit (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ritus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?it/
Noun
rite m (plural rites)
- rite
Derived terms
- rite de passage
Further reading
- “rite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????t??/
Etymology 1
Participle
rite
- past participle of righ
Adjective
rite
- taut, tense
- sharp, steep
- exposed (le (“to”))
- eager (chun (“for”))
Derived terms
- riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)
Etymology 2
Participle
rite
- past participle of rith
Adjective
rite
- exhausted, extinct
Derived terms
- rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)
References
- "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Latin
Etymology
From r?tus (“rite, custom”)
Adverb
r?te (not comparable)
- according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly
References
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.
Verb
rite
- to resemble; to be like, similar, alike
Derived terms
- whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar
References
- “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??i.t?]
- Hyphenation: ri?te
Verb
rite
- (transitive) to plant
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rite]
Noun
rite
- nominative/accusative plural of ri?
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