[ɾīnda]
OriginFrom Proto-Baltic *rinda, maybe from Proto-Indo-European *arēydʰ-, *rēydʰ-, *h₂rey-, derived from *h₂er- (“to unite, to fit”). Cognates include Lithuanian rindà, Old Church Slavonic рѧдъ (rędŭ), Russian ряд (rjad), Bulgarian ред (red), Polish rząd, Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raidjan, “organize, define”), 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “organized, ordered”), Old Norse greida (“unfold, arrange”), German bereit (“ready”), Persian رده (rade, “row, category”).
- declension-4, femininerow, line, queue (ordered linear arrangement of objects or people)
“stādīt ābeles rindās” — to plant apple trees in rows
“zobu rinda” — a row of teeth
“namu rinda” — a row of houses
- declension-4, feminine, in-plurallines, ranks (of an army or military or similar organization)
“stāties komjaunatnes rindās” — to fall into line with, to join the ranks of the Young Communist League
“dienēt armijas rindās” — to serve in the army (lit. in the army ranks)
- declension-4, feminineline (small amount of written text going across a page or column)
“rindu atstarpes” — space between lines
“pārnest vārdu jaunā rindā” — to move a word to a new line
“šīs rindas” — these lines (= this text, this letter)
- declension-4, feminineseries, sequence
“naturālo skaitļu rinda” — the sequence of natural numbers
“harmoniska rinda, virkne” — harmonic series
- declension-4, feminineseries, sequence (group of objects organized according to some principle)
“radioaktīvā rinda” — radioactive series
“urāna rinda” — uranium series
- declension-4, feminineorder of plants
- declension-4, femininecourse
Formsrinda(nominative, singular) · rindas(nominative, plural) · rindas(genitive, singular) · rindu(genitive, plural) · rindai(dative, singular) · rindām(dative, plural) · rindu(accusative, singular) · rindas(accusative, plural) · rindu(instrumental, singular) · rindām(instrumental, plural) · rindā(locative, singular) · rindās(locative, plural) · rinda(singular, vocative) · rindas(plural, vocative) · rinde(alternative)
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