English
rhyme
Rhyme comes from Middle English rim ‘identical letters or sounds in words from the…’, and goes back to Anglo-Norman rime.
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400rime
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rim‘identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their…’
- Englishearliest quotation 1594rhyme
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400rime
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rim‘identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their…’
- Englishearliest quotation 1594rhyme
Earliest quotation: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, King of England: […]: “Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, /…”
Linked words
through Middle English rim ‘identical letters or sounds in words from the…’
Another origin of rhyme
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400rimer
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rimen‘to recite or write verse’
- Englishtodayrhyme
From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (‘to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense’), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (‘to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse’) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1.
Today it means
noun Rhyming verse (poetic form).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Anglo-Norman rime / rhyme