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Webster 1913 Edition

Reiter

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Rei′ter

(r?′t?r)
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Noun.
[G., rider.]
A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Definition 2024

Reiter

Reiter

See also: reiter

German

Noun

Reiter m ‎(genitive Reiters, plural Reiter)

Reiter (widget)
  1. rider (one who rides (a horse))
  2. mounted man-at-arms, cuirassier
  3. (computing) tab (navigational widget in a GUI)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Old High German rîtera, attested as glossing cribrum; cognate with Anglo-Saxon hridder (English riddle ‎(“sieve”)), from the same root *krey- as cribrum, κρίμνον ‎(krímnon) (κρίνω ‎(krínō)). Early New High German forms reyter, raiter, reuter.

Noun

Reiter f ‎(genitive Reiter, plural Reiter)

  1. (archaic) winnowing sieve
Declension

Proper noun

Reiter m, f ‎(genitive Reiters)

  1. A surname​.

References

  1. ↑ Georg Friedrich Benecke und Karl Lachmann, Iwein. Hartmann von Aue (1827).

reiter

reiter

See also: Reiter

English

Noun

reiter ‎(plural reiters)

  1. (now historical) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Translations

Etymology

Old High German rîtari, Middle High German rîter, rîtære. Not of Proto-Germanic age, but an OHG formation from the verb rītan "to ride" (Anglo-Saxon rîdere and Old Icelandic ríðari are loans from OHG).

Low German has riddere, with short vowel and geminate. Middle High German forms seem to have varied between long and short vowel, rîter vs. riter, giving rise to the separate word Ritter "knight". Lachmann (1827) noted that Middle High German poetry avoided use of the word in rhyming position, indicating that the two forms were used interchangeably.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʀaɪ̯tɐ/

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