Rete in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rete

You can make 13 words from 'rete' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'rete'
• 3 letters words from 'rete'
• 2 letters words from 'rete'

4 letters words from 'rete'

RETE 4	TEER 4
TREE 4

3 letters words from 'rete'

ERE 3	REE 3
RET 3	TEE 3

2 letters words from 'rete'

EE 2	ER 2
ET 2	RE 2
TE 2

Definitions and meaning of rete

rete

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːti/
• Rhymes: -iːti

Noun

rete (plural retes or retia)

1. (anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves.
2. An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
3. A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features.

Anagrams

• TREE, Tree, reet, teer, tree

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'Are'are

Verb

rete

1. be good

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin rēte.

Noun

rete m

1. net

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “rete”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Verb

rete

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of retar

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Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish red.

Noun

rete

1. net

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Chuukese

Etymology

re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

rete

1. they will never
2. so they do not

Related terms

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Dutch

Verb

rete

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of rijten

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrete/
• Hyphenation: re‧te
• Rhymes: -ete

Adverb

rete

1. with a net
2. Clipping of interrete: on the Internet

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Guaraní

Noun

rete

1. body

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣeˈte/

Verb

rete

1. to live, reside
2. to stay
3. (idiomatic) Wait a short while.

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Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rete, Portuguese rede, Spanish red and French réseaux, all ultimately from Latin rēte.

Noun

rete (plural retes)

1. network (structure of interconnected elements for transit or communication or in a fabric, group of interacting agents)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēte (“net”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈre.te/
• Hyphenation: ré‧te

Noun

rete f (plural reti)

1. net
2. network
3. (soccer) goal

Related terms

Anagrams

• erte

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Latin

Alternative forms

• rētia, rētium

Etymology

• From a Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- root, cognate with Lithuanian rėtis (“sieve”), Latin rarus and other roots with the general meaning "bind, twist."
• or for *srēte, from serō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.te/, [ˈɾeːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.te/, [ˈrɛːt̪ɛ]

Noun

rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

1. net, snare, network
2. (figuratively) trap
3. (New Latin) The internet.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Derived terms

• interrēte
• irrētiō
• rētiarius (“net-wielding gladiator”)
• rēticulum (“network”)
• rētifex (“net-maker”)

Descendants

References

• rete in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rete in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rete in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• rete in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Spanish

Verb

rete

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of retar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of retar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of retar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of retar.

Source: wiktionary.org

• (obsolete) reckless.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)