re
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹiː/, /ɹeɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
Preposition
re
Usage notes
This word, when used in this particular sense, is often rendered as Re: (with a colon and a capital R). It is not an abbreviation. Its capitalization in sentence-initial position (such as in subject lines) is often reanalyzed as being intrinsic, leading to intrasentence capitalization. Because email software introduces it to the subject line in email replies, it often conveys an added meaning of reply in the 21st century, in addition to the earlier aspect of regarding.
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹeɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
re (uncountable)
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
Translations
Etymology 3
From re-
Noun
re (plural res)
- (video games, slang) Clipping of rematch.
- gg [good game], no re
- (marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names)
Ainu
< 2 | 3 | 4 > |
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Cardinal : re Ordinal : re ikinne | ||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɾe̞]
Albanian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Albanian *rina, a noun derived from the Proto-Indo-European verb *h₃rinéHti whence Albanian rij (“to make humid”), from the root *h₃reyH- (“move, flow, boil”). It is likely morphologically identical with Illyrian ῥινός (rhinós, “mist”).[1] Further related to Sanskrit रिणाति (riṇā́ti, “to make flow, to release, to pour”) and Proto-Slavic *rinǫti (“push, shove”).[2]
Alternative forms
Noun
References
- Katičić, Radoslav (1976) Ancient Languages of the Balkans, page 171
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “re ~ rê”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 366
Further reading
- “re”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Etymology 2
From Proto-Albanian *raida, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“reason, count”). Cognate with Latin rātiō (“reason, judgment”), Old Norse ráða, English read.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɾe/
Adjective
re f sg
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Breton
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁeː/
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Catalan
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin rēm (“thing, accusative”), res coming from the nominative. Compare French rien.
Alternative forms
- ren (archaic)
Czech
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reː/
Audio (file)
Noun
Anagrams
Eastern Arrernte
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin rēx, rēgem. Compare Italian re.
Galician
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re/, /ɾɛ/
Interlingua
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/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: ré
Noun
re m (invariable, feminine regina)
Descendants
- → Maltese: re
See also
- re di cuori
- re di fiori
- re di picche
- re di quadri
See also
Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text) | |||||
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re | regina, donna |
torre | alfiere | cavallo | pedone |
Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text) | ||||||
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asso | due | tre | quattro | cinque | sei | sette |
otto | nove | dieci | fante | donna, regina |
re | jolly, joker, matta |
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
Further reading
- re in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reː/, [reː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re/, [rɛː]
Noun
rē
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.
Latvian
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Unclear.
Interjection
re
- look! see? (used to draw the listener's attention to something visible)
- re, tās ir mājas, kur piedzimu ― look, that is the house where I was born
- re, kā ceriņi saglaudušies ap mājām un žogiem ― look how the lilacs have become smooth around the houses and fences
- re, cik klusu un nemanot mana māmuļa sirmo ― look how quietly, without being noticed, my mom became older (literally, “grayer)”)
- look, here is..., you see (used to draw the listener's attention to, or to emphasize, something said or written)
- malkas virtuvē nav; tad re, kāpēc māte vakar nekurināja ― there is no wood in the kitchen; here is why mother did not start the heating yesterday
- re, Mārtiņ, kā iet mūsu dzīvīte ― see, Martin, how our little life is going?...
- bet strazds, re, dzied par Ēģipti pie būra tavā priedē ― but the sterling, see, he is singing about Egypt at the cage in your pine tree
Ligurian
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛː/
Related terms
Mandarin
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Manx
Alternative forms
Northern Kurdish
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
From Italian.
Noun
re m (definite singular re-en, indefinite plural re-er, definite plural re-ene)
References
- “re” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
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)
- (music) re a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
References
- “re” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old Irish
Pali
Alternative forms
Pennsylvania German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rə/
Romanian
Sardinian
See also
Chess pieces in Sardinian · petzos de is iscacos (layout · text) | |||||
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re | reina | turre | alfiere | caddu | peone |
Further reading
- “re” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it
Serui-Laut
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈre/ [ˈre]
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: re
Etymology 2
Originally a prefix, re-.
Further reading
- “re”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
See also
Noun
re
- Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ر
Venetian
Alternative forms
- rè (obsolete)
Etymology
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): /ˈrɛ/
Wandamen
Yoruba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾè/
Verb
rè
Usage notes
- re when followed by direct object.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾè/
Verb
rè
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Verb
ré
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾè/
Usage notes
- re when followed by direct object.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾè/
Usage notes
- re when followed by direct object.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Verb
ré
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Verb
ré
- (transitive) to skim the top of a liquid
- To alter something, to cause something to be transferred or removed via supernatural or authoritative means
- Ifá ré ikú lórí awo ― Ifa removed(premature) death from the head of the Ifa priest
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Usage notes
- Always preceded by gbé
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾé/
Verb
ré
Etymology 11
From re used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.