- ritual
- ritual: [16] Ritual was borrowed from Latin rītuālis, a derivative of rītus ‘religious or other ceremony or practice’ (from which, via Old French rite, English gets rite [14]). It may have been related to Sanskrit rīti- ‘going, way, custom’.
=> rite - ritual (adj.)
- 1560s, from Middle French ritual or directly from Latin ritualis "relating to (religious) rites," from ritus "rite" (see rite). Related: Ritually.
- ritual (nj.)
- 1640s, from ritual (adj.).