## Examples
- The reeds were edged with rime after the freezing fog.
- The night mist rimed the windows by morning.
- The ballad was written in rough rime.

## Synonyms
- hoarfrost
- frost
- rhyme
- verse

## Derived Forms
- rimed
- rimer
- riming
- rimy

## Related Forms
- rhyme
- ice

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *krey-
- Root: rim
- Root: hrīm
- Root: *hrīm
- Root: *hrīmą

## Etymology
From Middle English rim, rime ("hoar frost; rime"), from Old English hrīm ("frost"), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą. The poetic spelling sense is an early variant of rhyme.

## AI Etymology
Rime comes from Middle English rim or rime, from Old English hrīm, meaning frost. Its main modern sense is the white crust of ice crystals formed by freezing fog or vapor. The adjective rimy is built from rime + -y, so it belongs under the rime word family rather than as a separate study headword. A separate literary spelling sense overlaps with rhyme, but the frost sense is the one that explains rimy. The historical path is straightforward Germanic inheritance: older forms already named frost, and Modern English preserves that concrete weather meaning.

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- Weather & Climate

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