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Yes. The word rete is a Scrabble US word. The word rete is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word rete is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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4-letter words (3 found)

RETE,TEER,TREE,

3-letter words (4 found)

ERE,REE,RET,TEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,ET,RE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from rete according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rete

rete erte rtee tree etre tere reet eret reet eret eert eert rtee tree rete erte tere etre eter teer eetr eetr teer eter

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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.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • TREE, Tree, reet, teer, tree

'Are'are

Verb

rete

  1. be good

References

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

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

Asturian

Verb

rete

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

Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish red.

Noun

rete

  1. net

Chuukese

Etymology

re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

rete

  1. they will never
  2. so they do not

Related terms


Dutch

Verb

rete

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of rijten

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrete]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: re‧te

Adverb

rete

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

Galician

Verb

rete

  1. inflection of retar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Guaraní

Noun

rete

  1. dependent form of tete

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.

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)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēte (“net”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈre.te/
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: ré‧te

Noun

rete f (plural reti)

  1. net, mesh
    calze e rete ― fishnet stockings
  2. network
    rete elettrica ― electricity grid
  3. (television) channel
  4. (soccer) goal
  5. base (of a bed)

Related terms

Anagrams

  • erte

Latin

Alternative forms

  • rētia, rētium

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rēti-, of uncertain origin. Some theories:

  • From a Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- root, related to rārus, Lithuanian rėtis (“sieve”), and other roots with the general meaning "bind, twist".
  • Or, for an alternative reconstruction *srēte, from serō (“to bind”).
  • Alternatively, borrowed from Semitic; compare Hebrew רֶשֶׁת (rešet, “net (for fishing and bird-catching)”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎘𐎚 (rṯt, “net”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreː.te/, [ˈreːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.te/, [ˈrɛːt̪e]

Noun

rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

  1. net, snare, network
  2. (figuratively) trap
  3. (Contemporary Latin) Web, 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
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521

Spanish

Verb

rete

  1. inflection of retar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾe.te]

Verb

rete

  1. (transitive) to stack up, pile, layer

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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