Noun: riches
Sample Sentences
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Cal.[…]Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments
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Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,
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That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,
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Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,
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The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches
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Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd
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I cri'de to dreame againe. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:]
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You will enjoy the riches of this forest.
Nouns inflected like riches
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English riches, plural of riche (“power, wealth”), from Old English rīċe (“power, authority, dominion”). Confused with Middle English richesse (“wealth”), from Old French richesse, from riche (“rich, wealthy”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīki (“rich”) from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“rich, powerful”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct, make right”). Akin to Old High German rīhhi (“rich”) (German reich (“rich”)), Old English rīċe (“rich”), Old English racu (“explanation, reasoning”). More at rich. See: Middle English Nouns '
richesse', Old English Nouns '
rīċe', Middle English Nouns '
richesse', German Nouns '
reich', Old English Nouns '
rīċe', Old English Nouns '
racu'.