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3 letters words from 'reo'

ORE 3REO 3
ROE 3 

2 letters words from 'reo'

ER 2OE 2
OR 2RE 2

All 3 letters words made out of reo

reo ero roe ore eor oer

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Definitions and meaning of reo

reo

Galician

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin reus (“accused”). Compare Portuguese réu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreo̝/

Noun

reo m (plural reos, feminine rea, feminine plural reas)

  1. convict
  2. person accused of a crime.

Etymology 2

Probably from Late Latin rhēdō, of probable Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreo̝/

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

  1. sea trout
    • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
      Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra
      Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of basses and of young basses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams [...], four diñeiros each pound

References

  • “reo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “reos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “reo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “reo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “reo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “reo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ɾˠoː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ɾˠɔː/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish reód, from Old Irish réud, from Proto-Celtic *ɸreswos, from Proto-Indo-European *prews-.

Noun

reo m (genitive singular reo)

  1. verbal noun of reoigh (“freeze; congeal, solidify”)
  2. frost
Declension
Alternative forms
  • reodh (obsolete)
  • reódh (obsolete)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

reo f or m (genitive singular reo, nominative plural reoanna)

  1. Alternative form of ré (“moon; period; space, intervening distance”)
Declension
Feminine
Masculine

Further reading

  • "reo" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “reód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reus (“defendant, accused”). Cognate to rio (“bad”), inherited from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛ.o/
  • Rhymes: -ɛo
  • Hyphenation: rè‧o

Adjective

reo (feminine rea, masculine plural rei, feminine plural ree) (di)

  1. guilty (of)

Noun

reo m (plural rei)

  1. offender

Anagrams

  • -erò, -ore, Ero, Ore, ero, ore

Latin

Noun

reō m

  1. dative singular of reus
  2. ablative singular of reus

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo, from Proto-Oceanic *leqo, doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ (“neck”).

Noun

reo

  1. voice
  2. speech, utterance
  3. language

Derived terms

  • reo tupu
  • te reo

Old High German

Etymology

Cognate to Old Norse hræ.

Noun

rēo n

  1. corpse

Rarotongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo, from Proto-Oceanic *leqo, doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ (“neck”).

Noun

reo

  1. voice
  2. speech
  3. language

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin reus (“accused”). Compare Portuguese réu .

Noun

reo m (plural reos, feminine rea, feminine plural reas)

  1. defendant (as in a trial)
  2. delinquent

Adjective

reo (feminine rea, masculine plural reos, feminine plural reas)

  1. accused of a crime
  2. found guilty of a crime

Etymology 2

Uncertain; probably from Celto-Latin rhēdo, redo.

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

  1. (zoology) sea trout

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Catalan reu.

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

  1. turn (in a game)
    Synonyms: vez, turno
Derived terms
  • a reo y al reo

Further reading

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

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo, from Proto-Oceanic *leqo, doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ (“neck”).

Noun

reo

  1. language

Source: wiktionary.org
  • RENY, (obsolete) to renounce, abjure.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)