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Definitions and meaning of re

re

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹiː/, /ɹeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ

Preposition

re

  1. About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents and emails.
Usage notes

This word, when used in this particular sense, is often rendered as Re: (with a colon). It is not an abbreviation.

Synonyms
  • about, apropos, as for; See also Thesaurus:about
Derived terms
  • in re
  • in rem
Translations

Etymology 2

The first syllable of Latin resonāre (“to resound”), the first word of the second line of the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the solfège syllables were taken because its successive lines started each on the next note of the scale. Doublet of resound and resonate.

Alternative forms

  • ray

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

re (uncountable)

  1. (music) a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹiː/

Noun

re (uncountable)

  1. Reinsurance.

Anagrams

  • 'er, -'er, -er, E-R, E. R., E.R., ER, er, er.

Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɾe̞]

Numeral

re (Kana spelling レ)

  1. three

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • rê, rêj, rêu, rênj, rên (Gheg dialects)
  • ren (Old Albanian and Tosk: Çamërisht, Arbëreshë, Arvanitika)

Etymology 1

  • From Old Albanian ren (“cloud(s)”), from Proto-Albanian *rina, derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rinéHti (and thus related to Albanian rij (“to make humid”)), present of Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“move, flow, boil”). It is probably etymologically identical with Illyrian ῥίνος άχλύς. Further related to Sanskrit रिणाति (riṇā́ti, “to make flow, to release, to pour”) and Proto-Slavic *rinǫti (“push, shove”).

Noun

re f (indefinite plural re, definite singular reja)

  1. cloud(s) (uncountable)
  2. haze, mist
  3. overcast
Related terms
  • rij, ritë
  • vrenjt
  • vrenjtur
  • vrëndë
  • vranësi
  • ren f
  • rend

References

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *raida, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“reason, count”). Cognate with Latin rātiō (“reason, judgment”), Old Norse ráða, English read.

Noun

re f (indefinite plural re, definite singular reja)

  1. attention, care, consideration
Related terms
  • vërej
  • vërejtje
  • vrojtim m
  • vë

Etymology 3

Cognate to ri m (“new”). See ri for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɾe] (Standard)

Adjective

re f sg

  1. young
  2. new

Etymology 4

Inflection of bie.

Verb

re

  1. second-person singular simple perfect indicative of bie

Asturian

Noun

re m (plural res)

  1. Alternative form of rei
  2. (music) re, ray

Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁeː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *ɸro- (compare Welsh rhy, Irish ró-).

Adverb

re

  1. too much

Etymology 2

Pronoun

re

  1. those

Etymology 3

Noun

re m (plural reo)

  1. pair (of shoes, eyes, etc.)
  2. couple

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈrə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈrɛ/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈre/

Pronoun

re

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of res

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈrɛ/

Noun

re m (plural res)

  1. (music) re (second note of diatonic scale)

Chuukese

Pronoun

re

  1. they
  2. they are
  3. Of a nationality or place; -ish.

Synonyms

  • ra

Czech

Noun

re n

  1. (card games) double raise (multiplies the current stake by 4)

References


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reː/

Noun

re f (plural re's, diminutive re'tje n)

  1. (Netherlands, music) re (second note of a major scale)
  2. (Belgium, music) d (tone)

Anagrams

  • er

Eastern Arrernte

Pronoun

re

  1. he (third person singular masculine pronoun)

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem. Compare Italian re.

Noun

re m (plural rês)

  1. king

Related terms

  • reìne
  • reâl

Galician

Etymology

Noun

re m (plural res)

  1. (music) re (musical note)
  2. (music) D (the musical note or key)

See also

  • (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (Category: gl:Music)

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /re/, /ɾɛ/

Noun

re (plural re-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

See also

  • (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze (Category: io:Latin letter names)

Interlingua

Preposition

re

  1. about

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of rege, which was borrowed from Latin via the accusative rēgem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈre/*, /ˈre/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ré

Noun

re m (invariable, feminine regina)

  1. king, male monarch
  2. (chess, card games) king
  3. (figuratively) king, magnate (man who excels in something)
Synonyms
  • (male monarch): monarca, regnante, sovrano
  • (someone who excels): campione, principe, signore

See also

  • re di cuori
  • re di quadri
  • re di fiori
  • re di picche
Descendants
  • → Maltese: re
See also

Etymology 2

From Latin resonāre (“to resound”), from the first word of the second line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based, because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛ/, /ˈrɛ/*
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: rè

Noun

re m (plural rè, rè*)

  2. re (musical note)
  3. D (musical note or key)

References

  • re in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Japanese

Romanization

re

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of レ

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /reː/, [reː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re/, [rɛ]

Noun

rē

  1. ablative singular of rēs
  2. in reality, in fact, on practice (often strengthened by vērā, ipsā)

Derived terms

  • reāpse
  • rē ipsā
  • rē vērā / rēvērā

Further reading

  • re in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • re in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • re in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Etymology 1

Unclear.

Noun

re m (invariable)

  1. (music) re, D (second note in the major scale)

Etymology 2

Unclear.

Interjection

re

  1. look! see? (used to draw the listener's attention to something visible)
  2. look, here is..., you see (used to draw the listener's attention to, or to emphasize, something said or written)
Synonyms
  • āre
  • lūk

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian re and/or Italian re, from Latin rēx.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛː/

Noun

re m (plural rejiet, feminine reġina)

  1. king
    Synonym: sultan (see there for notes)

Related terms

  • renju

Mandarin

Romanization

re

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ré.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of rě.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of rè.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Alternative forms

  • nee

Particle

re

  1. dependent form (after dy, nagh) of she

Northern Kurdish

Postposition

re

  1. a postposed element of several circumpositions

Derived terms

  • bi ... re
  • di ... re
  • ji ... re

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

Verb

re

  1. to say

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse reiða. Doublet of rede.

Alternative forms

  • reie

Verb

re (present tense rer; past tense redde; past participle redd)

  1. to prepare; make (a bed)

Etymology 2

From Italian.

Noun

re m (definite singular re-en, indefinite plural re-er, definite plural re-ene)

  1. re, the second syllable in the scale of solfège

References

  • “re” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • er

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Through 17th century Italian. The first syllable of Latin resonāre (“to resound”), the first word of the second line of the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the solfège syllables were taken because its successive lines started each on the next note of the scale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

re m (definite singular re-en, indefinite plural re-ar, definite plural re-ane)

  2. (music) re a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

References

  • “re” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • er

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German einer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rə/

Article

re f (indefinite)

  1. a, an

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French ré or Italian re.

Noun

re m (plural re)

  1. re (musical note)

Declension

Serui-Laut

Noun

re

  1. eye

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

Verb

re

  1. to say

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈre/, [ˈre]

Etymology 1

Noun

re m (plural res)

  1. (music) re

Etymology 2

Originally a prefix, re-.

Adverb

re

  1. very
    Synonym: muy

Further reading

  • “re” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Noun

re

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

Wandamen

Noun

re

  1. eye

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾè/

Verb

rè

  1. to go
    Synonyms: lọ, yú
    (proverb on expediency)
Derived terms
Usage notes
  • re when followed by direct object.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾè/

Verb

rè

  1. (Ekiti) to be
    Synonym: jẹ́

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾè/

Verb

rè

  1. to roast on a fire
    Synonym: wì
Derived terms
Usage notes
  • re when followed by direct object.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾè/

Verb

rè

  1. to nurse, to give specific attention to something or someone
    Synonym: tọ́jú
Derived terms
Usage notes
  • re when followed by direct object.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾé/

Verb

ré

  1. to soak, to become swollen (in reference to the skin)
    Synonyms: wú, só
Derived terms

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾé/

Verb

ré

  1. to exceed (in degree or dimension), to pass, to go across a mark
Derived terms

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾé/

Verb

ré

  1. to skim the top off of some liquid
  2. To alter something or cause something to be transferred or removed via supernatural or authoritative means
Derived terms

Etymology 8

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾé/

Verb

ré

  1. to put a curse or spell on someone
Derived terms
Usage notes
  • Always preceded by gbé

Etymology 9

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾé/

Verb

ré

  1. to trigger, to undergo a hit
  2. To dislocate, to suffer from a dislocated body part
    Synonyms: wọ́n, hán
Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org
  • RAZZLE, a rowdy drinking spree.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)