rime

Meanings

Noun

• Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
• A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
• A film or slimy coating.
• Number.
• Rhyme.
• The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
• A step of a ladder; a rung.
• A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Verb

• To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Origin

• From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmaz, *hrīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Cognate with Dutch rijm, dialectal Bavarian Reim, Danish rim, Norwegian rim.
• From Middle English rime, from Old English rīm, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *rēy-. Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.
• Unknown
• Latin rima.