Rice

See also: rice, RICE, ricé, and -rice

English

Alternative forms

• Rise, Wrice

Etymology

• As a Welsh surname, borrowed from Welsh Rhys, an Anglicization. Compare Reese, Price, and Preece.
• As an English surname, from Old English hris (“brushwood, shrubbery”).
• Also as an English surname, from a nickname through Middle English and Anglo-Norman from French ris (“smile, laughter”).
• Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun rice.
• As as German surname, Americanized from Reis (“shoot, twig”), related to the Old English word above. Compare Ries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs
• Homophone: rice

Proper noun

Rice (countable and uncountable, plural Rices)

1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
   3. A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
   5. An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.
   6. A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.
   7. An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
   8. An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.
   9. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.

Derived terms

• Rice County

Translations

transliteration of the English surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賴斯／赖斯 (zh) (Làisī)

• Latvian: Raisa f, Raiss m

Anagrams

• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer