rhythm English · revision 13206

− It is a 16th-century spelling, an attempted classical correction, of Middle English rime, measure, metre (see [[rhyme]]),^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(SOED 2002) reshaped after Latin rhythmus, movement in time, or French rhythme,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) from Greek [[m|grc|ῥυθμός|tr=rhythmós|t=measured flow or movement, proportion]], related to [[m|grc|ῥεῖν|tr=rheîn|t=to flow]] (see [[stream]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)