rebus

See also: Rebus, rébus, and rebus'

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French rébus, from Latin rebus (ablative plural of res (“thing”)), taken either from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur "concerning the things that are taking place", used in sixteenth-century Picardie as the name for satirical pieces containing picture-riddles, or from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rébus meaning "not by words but by things".

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: rē'bəs, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbəs/
• Rhymes: -iːbəs

NounEdit

rebus (plural rebuses)

1. A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
2. (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.

SynonymsEdit

• (word puzzle): dingbat

TranslationsEdit

puzzle

• Armenian: ռեբուս (hy) (ṙebus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 畫謎

• Czech: rébus m
• Danish: rebus
• Dutch: rebus (nl)
• Finnish: kuva-arvoitus
• French: rébus (fr)
• German: Bilderrätsel, Rebus (de)

• Greek: εικονόγριφος m (eikonógrifos)
• Hebrew: רבוס‏‎ (he)
• Italian: rebus (it)
• Polish: rebus (pl)
• Portuguese: rébus m
• Russian: ре́бус (ru) m (rébus)
• Spanish: jeroglífico
• Swedish: rebus (sv)
• Ukrainian: ребус (rebus)

pictorial suggestion of a person's name

• Finnish: kuvakirjoitus (fi)

VerbEdit

rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses, present participle rebusing, simple past and past participle rebused)

1. (transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
   • Fuller

     He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

See alsoEdit

• Wikipedia article on the rebus

AnagramsEdit

• Burse, Suber, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, resub, rubes, suber, urbes

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Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

French rébus, from Latin rebus.

NounEdit

rebus

1. rebus.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of rebus

nominative	rebus
genitive	rebusnıñ
dative	rebusqa
accusative	rebusnı
locative	rebusta
ablative	rebustan

ReferencesEdit

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

rebus c (singular definite rebussen, plural indefinite rebusser)

1. rebus (puzzle)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of rebus

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rebus	rebussen	rebusser	rebusserne
genitive	rebus'	rebussens	rebussers	rebussernes

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FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

rebus

1. first-person singular past historic of reboire
2. second-person singular past historic of reboire

ParticipleEdit

rebus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of reboire

AnagramsEdit

• beurs

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

rebus m (invariable)

1. rebus
2. enigma
3. puzzle

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

rēbus

1. dative plural of res
2. ablative plural of res

ReferencesEdit

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “rebus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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MalayEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rebus

1. boiled (food)

VerbEdit

rebus (used in the form merebus)

1. to boil (food)

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /rěːbus/
• Hyphenation: re‧bus

NounEdit

rébus m (Cyrillic spelling ре́бус)

1. rebus

DeclensionEdit

Declension of rebus

	singular	plural
nominative	rebus	rebusi
genitive	rebusa	rebusa
dative	rebusu	rebusima
accusative	rebus	rebuse
vocative	rebuse	rebusi
locative	rebusu	rebusima
instrumental	rebusom	rebusima

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

rebus c

1. a rebus; a kind of word puzzle

DeclensionEdit

Declension of rebus
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rebus	rebusen	rebusar	rebusarna
Genitive	rebus	rebusens	rebusars	rebusarnas

Related termsEdit

• rebuslösning

SynonymsEdit

• bildgåta

ReferencesEdit

• Rebus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)