ret

ret

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Retta.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Retta terms

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVIII:

     the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

• retter

Abbreviation.

• ret.
• retd

ret

1. Abbreviation of retired.

ret (plural rets)

1. (printing, historical) Clipping of reiteration.

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• ERT, ETR, TER, ert, ter, ter-

• IPA^(key): /rʌt/
• (Banda Aceh) IPA^(key): [rɛt]

ret

1. road

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈret]

Borrowed from Latin rete (“net”).

ret m (plural rets)

1. hairnet

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ret

1. inflection of retre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ret”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Czech ret, from Proto-Slavic *rъtъ. Compare Russian рот (rot, “mouth”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛt]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

ret m inan (diminutive rtík)

1. lip

• “ret”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ret”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “ret”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/, [ˈʁad̥], [ˈʁɑd̥]
• Homophone: rat

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós, hence Latin rēctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós, “stretched out”).

ret (plural and definite singular attributive rette)

1. straight

   en ret linje

   a straight line

   Synonym: lige

2. right, proper
3. rightful

   den rette arving

   the rightful heir

   Synonym: retmæssig Antonym: uretmæssig

4. (knitting, also used adverbially) plain, knitwise

   Antonym: vrang

   Strik skiftevis tre masker ret og to vrang.

   Alternately, knit three stitches and purl two. (lit.: "knit three stitches knitwise and two purlwise")

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

   Han er ret høj.

   He is rather tall.

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtuz, related to the adjective *rehtaz. The Danish word has been influenced by the German cognates Recht (“right, law”) and Gericht (“court”). The meaning “course of food” is influenced by Middle Low German richte and German Gericht.

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) justice, law

   Synonyms: jura, lov, justits

2. court, courtroom, lawcourt (institution)
3. courtroom (physical location)
   • 2016, Louise Damløv, Cecilie Kallestrup, Tre meter fra Breivik: En beretning fra Nordens største terrorretssag, Informations Forlag, →ISBN:

     Kun omkring halvdelen af de vidner, forsvaret havde indkaldt for at sandsynliggøre, at Breiviks ideologi ikke var galemandssnak, mødte op i retten.

     Only about half of the witness that the defense had summoned to support that Brevik's ideology was not the talk of a madman appeared in court.

   • 2017, Nadine Gordimer, translated by Finn Holten Hansen, Æresgæst, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Retten var fyldt, og ansigter blev ved med at kigge ind ad vinduerne fra en voksende mængde udenfor.

     The courtroom was full, and faces kept looking in through the windows from a growing crowd outside.

   Synonym: retssal

4. (uncountable) right, entitlement

   Alle mennesker har ret til basal respekt.

   All humans have a right to basic respect.

   Synonym: rettighed

5. dish, course (of food)
6. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric')

“ret,1” in Den Danske Ordbog “ret,2” in Den Danske Ordbog “ret,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ret

1. imperative of rette

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rъtъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈrɛt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈrɛt/

ret m inan

1. lip
2. edge (of a vessel)

• Czech: ret

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ret”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Borrowed from German rot.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: ret

ret m inan

1. (geology) Röt Formation

• ret in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From English red.

ret

1. red

From Ottoman Turkish رد (redd), from Arabic رَدّ (radd).

• IPA^(key): /ɾɛt/

ret (definite accusative reddi, plural retler)

1. refusal
2. denial

• reddetmek

Borrowed from Arabic رَدّ (radd)

• Hyphenation: ret

ret (definite accusative reti, plural retler)

1. rejection

• “ret” in Enedilim.com
• “ret” in Webonary.org