rathe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
Definition of rathe
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(poetic)Ripening or blooming early.
“Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.”
“Thy converse drew us with delight, The men of rathe and riper years: The feeble soul, a haunt of fears, Forgot his weakness in thy sight.”
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adj
-
(poetic)Ripening or blooming early.
“Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.”
“Thy converse drew us with delight, The men of rathe and riper years: The feeble soul, a haunt of fears, Forgot his weakness in thy sight.”
adv
- (obsolete)Quickly.
- (poetic)Early in the morning.
name
- A surname from German.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English rathe, from Old English hraþe, from Proto-West Germanic *hraþō, *hradō (“quickly”), from *hraþ, *hrad (“quick”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“quick; to move quickly”). Cognate with German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), and German gerade (“now, just, exactly”); compare Dutch rad (“quick, swift”), Norwegian rad (“quick, direct”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌹𐌶𐌰 (raþiza, “easier”).
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