ret

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Retta terms

• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/ɹɛt/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-ɛt

FromMiddle Englishretten,reten; perhaps fromMiddle Dutchrēten,reeten (compareMiddle Low Germanrōten;Middle High Germanrōzen), or fromOld Norsereyta (compareNorwegianrøyta,Swedishröta); all fromProto-Germanic*rautijaną(“to make mellow or soft”), fromProto-Indo-European*rewd-(“to tear; rend; rip”). Related torot.

ret (third-person singular simple presentrets,present participleretting,simple past and past participleretted)

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

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

   • 2006,Thomas Pynchon,Against the Day, Vintage, published2007, page621:

     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 beretted till the spring

• retter

Abbreviation.

ret

1. retired

ret (pluralrets)

1. (printing,historical)Short forreiteration.

• 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 fromLatinrete(“net”).

ret m (pluralrets)

1. hairnet

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

ret

1. inflection ofretre:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “ret” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited fromOld Czechret, fromProto-Slavic*rъtъ. CompareRussianрот(rot,“mouth”).

• IPA^(key):[ˈrɛt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ɛt

ret m inan (diminutivertík)

1. lip

• “ret”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “ret”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “ret”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

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

FromOld Norseréttr, fromProto-Germanic*rehtaz, cognate withSwedishrätt,rät,Englishright,Germanrecht,gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back toProto-Indo-European*h₃reǵtós, henceLatinrēctus(“straight”),Ancient Greekὀρεκτός(orektós,“stretched out”).

ret (plural and definite singular attributiverette)

1. straight

   enret linje

   astraight line

   Synonym:lige

2. right,proper
3. rightful

   denrette arving

   therightful heir

   Synonym:retmæssigAntonym:uretmæssig

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

   Antonym:vrang

   Strik skiftevis tre maskerret og to vrang.

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

ret

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

   Han erret høj.

   He israther tall.

FromOld Norseréttr, fromProto-Germanic*rehtuz, related to the adjective*rehtaz. The Danish word has been influenced by the German cognatesRecht(“right, law”) andGericht(“court”). The meaning “course of food” is influenced byMiddle Low Germanrichte andGermanGericht.

ret c (singular definiteretten,plural indefiniteretter)

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 iretten.

     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 incourt.

   • 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.

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

   Synonym:retssal

4. (uncountable)right,entitlement

   Alle mennesker harret til basal respekt.

   All humans have aright to basic respect.

   Synonym:rettighed

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

“ret,1” inDen Danske Ordbog“ret,2” inDen Danske Ordbog“ret,3” inDen Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

ret

1. imperative ofrette

Inherited fromProto-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”, inSlovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Borrowed fromGermanrot.^[1]

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

ret m inan

1. (geology)Röt Formation

• ret in Polish dictionaries at PWN

FromEnglishred.

ret

1. red

FromOttoman Turkishرد(redd), fromArabicرَدّ(radd).

• IPA^(key):/ɾɛt/

ret (definite accusativereddi,pluralretler)

1. refusal
2. denial

• reddetmek

Borrowed fromArabicرَدّ(radd)

• Hyphenation:ret

ret (definite accusativereti,pluralretler)

1. rejection

• “ret” inEnedilim.com
• “ret” inWebonary.org