ren
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ren (plural renes)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a kidney — see kidney
Etymology 2Edit
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NounEdit
ren (plural rens)
- (Egyptian mythology) One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
- 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
- For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.
- 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
ChuukeseEdit
CimbrianEdit
VerbEdit
ren
ReferencesEdit
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rene or rener)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rener)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Old Norse hreinn (adjective).
AdjectiveEdit
ren
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of ren | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Common singular | ren | — | —2 |
| Neuter singular | rent | — | —2 |
| Plural | rene | — | —2 |
| Definite attributive1 | rene | — | — |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ren m (plural rennen, diminutive rennetje n)
- The place where chickens are kept.
VerbEdit
ren
GalicianEdit
Haitian CreoleEdit
InterlinguaEdit
InterlingueEdit
JapaneseEdit
KurdishEdit
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”), related to Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “heart, midriff, mind”) and Tocharian cognates.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rēn m (genitive rēnis); third declension
- (anatomy) kidney
- (this term almost always plural in (ancient) Latin. See B. L. Gildersleeve's Pg. 35, Oxford Latin Dictionary Pg. 1614)
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rēn | rēnēs |
| Genitive | rēnis | rēnum |
| Dative | rēnī | rēnibus |
| Accusative | rēnem | rēnēs |
| Ablative | rēne | rēnibus |
| Vocative | rēn | rēnēs |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: rână
- Italian: rene
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- ⇒ Aragonese: renera
- Old French: rein, rain
- Old Occitan:
- Occitan: ren
- Old Portuguese:
- Portuguese: rim
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: rene
- Sardinian: arrene, rene
- Sicilian: rini
- Venetian: reno
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēnile
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēniō (see there for further descendants)
- → Gheg Albanian: rrâni
ReferencesEdit
- ren in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ren in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ren in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ren in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ^ Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, Volumes 4-6
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
ren
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
ManxEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- rein (Nynorsk also)
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ren (neuter singular rent, definite singular and plural rene, comparative renere, indefinite superlative renest, definite superlative reneste)
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from ren
ReferencesEdit
- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ren m anim
DeclensionEdit
declension of ren
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Re | Previous: wolfram (W) |
| Next: osm (Os) | |
ren m inan
DeclensionEdit
declension of ren
Further readingEdit
- ren in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French renne, from Swedish ren, from Old Norse hreinn.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ren m (plural reni)
DeclensionEdit
declension of ren
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *xrěnъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rȅn m (Cyrillic spelling ре̏н)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ren
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | rȅn |
| genitive | rèna |
| dative | renu |
| accusative | ren |
| vocative | rene |
| locative | renu |
| instrumental | renom |
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ren c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of ren | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | ren | renen | renar | renarna |
| Genitive | rens | renens | renars | renarnas |
HyponymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz.
AdjectiveEdit
ren (comparative renare, superlative renast)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of ren | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | ren | renare | renast |
| Neuter singular | rent | renare | renast |
| Plural | rena | renare | renast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | rene | renare | renaste |
| All | rena | renare | renaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||
AntonymsEdit
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ren
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