ré

See also: Appendix:Variations of "re"

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

ré m (plural ré)

1. (music) re, the note 'D'

Further reading

• “ré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈreː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -reː

Noun

solmisation

ré (plural rék)

1. re, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, mi, fá, szó, lá, ti

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ré	rék
accusative	rét	réket
dative	rének	réknek
instrumental	rével	rékkel
causal-final	réért	rékért
translative	révé	rékké
terminative	réig	rékig
essive-formal	réként	rékként
essive-modal	réül	—
inessive	rében	rékben
superessive	rén	réken
adessive	rénél	réknél
illative	rébe	rékbe
sublative	rére	rékre
allative	réhez	rékhez
elative	réből	rékből
delative	réről	rékről
ablative	rétől	réktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	réé	réké
non-attributive possessive – plural	rééi	rékéi

Possessive forms of ré

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	rém	réim
2nd person sing.	réd	réid
3rd person sing.	réje	réi
1st person plural	rénk	réink
2nd person plural	rétek	réitek
3rd person plural	réjük	réik

Further reading

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Anagrams

• ér

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠeː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish roe, rói (“plain”), from Proto-Celtic *rowos. Cognate with Latin rūs. Akin to raon.

Noun

ré f (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réite)

1. stretch of ground; level ground
2. field

Declension

Declension of ré (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ré réite vocative a ré a réite genitive ré réite dative ré réite forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an ré na réite genitive na ré na réite dative leis an ré don ré leis na réite

Alternative forms

• rae

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ré, possibly from Proto-Celtic *rowis.

Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (agriculture) row
2. lineage, row

Alternative forms

• rae

Noun

ré f or m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (archaic) moon; phase of moon; month
2. period
   1. portion of time
   2. span of life, of career
   3. age, era, epoch
3. (literary) space, intervening distance

Declension

Declension of ré (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ré réanna vocative a ré a réanna genitive ré réanna dative ré réanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an ré na réanna genitive na ré na réanna dative leis an ré don ré leis na réanna

Alternative forms

• reo

Derived terms

• leathré (“half-life”)
• roimh ré (“in advance, beforehand”)

Etymology 3

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

Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (music) re

Declension

Declension of ré (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ré réanna vocative a ré a réanna genitive ré réanna dative ré réanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an ré na réanna genitive na ré na réanna dative leis an ré don ré leis na réanna

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ré”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ré”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ré”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Mandarin

Romanization

ré (re², Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 若

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• re, ri, ría

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrīs (compare Gaulish ris), from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with English first and Latin prīscus (“former”). The eclipsis trigger is analogical to íar (“after”). The inflected forms in -m, as well as the cognate prefix rem-, are from the superlative *ɸrīsamos (compare Latin prīmus (“first”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r͈ʲeː]

Preposition

ré (with the dative; triggers eclipsis)

1. before
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Inflection

Inflection of ré

	Person:		normal	emphatic
singular	first		rium	riumsa
	second		riut
	third m or n	dative	rïam, ríam
		accusative
	third f	dative	remi	remisi
		accusative
plural	first		riun
	second		reuib
	third	dative	remib
		accusative

Combined with a definite article:

• resin(d) (“before the sg”)

Combined with a possessive determiner:

• rem (“before my”)
• renna, rinna, rena (“before his/her/its/their”)

Combined with a relative pronoun:

• resa

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: roimh (from rïam (third-person singular masculine))

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “6 ré, ría”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 275, 527–28; reprinted 2017
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈhɛ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈhɛ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈχɛ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ré

Etymology 1

From Latin re[sonāre] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

ré m (plural rés)

1. re (musical note)

Coordinate terms

• (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

Etymology 2

From Latin retrō.

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

1. (nautical) stern (rear part of a ship or vessel)
2. (Brazil) reverse (gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) marcha à ré, (Brazil) marcha a ré, (Portugal) marcha-atrás

Etymology 3

From Latin rea.

Adjective

ré f sg

1. feminine singular of réu

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

1. female equivalent of réu

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɛ˦˥]

Verb

ré • (㕽, 哩)

1. to screech