## Meanings
1. The amount charged or paid for something.
2. How fast something happens or how often it occurs over time.
3. An amount measured as a proportion of something else.
4. To judge how good or valuable someone or something is.

## Examples
- A ten-minute phone call at that rate would cost five dollars.
- They traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour.
- The literacy rate in the region has risen sharply.
- How would you rate their chances of winning?

## Derived Forms
- birthrate
- bitrate
- buyrate
- countrate
- cut-rate
- derate
- disrate
- downrate
- eigenrate
- fallrate
- fifth-rate
- fillrate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: raten
- Root: hrata
- Root: *hratōną
- Root: *krad-

## Etymology
From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”).

## AI Etymology
Rate comes from Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”). Modern senses include the amount charged or paid for something. and how fast something happens or how often it occurs over time.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as birthrate, bitrate, buyrate, countrate, cut-rate, and derate.

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- Numbers & Quantity

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