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ren

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ren"

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Learned borrowing from Latin ren. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).

Noun edit

ren (plural renes)

  1. (anatomy) A kidney.
    • 1759, Malcolm Flemyng, “Lecture XIX. On the kidneys and urinary bladder. Gravel; calculus.”, in An Introduction to Physiology, Being a Courſe of Lectures Upon the moſt important Parts of the Animal Œconomy: […], London: J. Nourse, →OCLC, page 259:
      Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw off another principal excrementitious matter, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys.
    • 1810, William Tully, “On Aliment”, in Proceedings of the Presidents and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, published 1884, page 326:
      We find, however, that the detrita, consisting principally of effete hydrogen and carbon, brought into the circulation by the absorbents, are constantly making their escape from the system by way of the renes, skin, and lungs, in the forms of water, and carbonic-acid.
    • 1858, William Tully, Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, page 1195:
      It would probably have been considered an important omission if I had not mentioned Water as a substance excreted freely by the renes or kidneys.
    • 1893, Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences:
      Renal. Belonging to the ren or kidney.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
a kidney — see kidney

Etymology 2 edit

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn,

r
n		 A2

Noun edit

ren (plural rens)

  1. (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.

Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

The Tosk (Çamërisht, Arbëreshë/Arvanite) and also Old Albanian form of Standard Albanian re (“cloud, clouds”).

Noun edit

ren f

  1. cloud(s)
  2. haze, mist
  3. overcast

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Catalan edit

 
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French renne.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren m (plural rens)

  1. reindeer

Chuukese edit

Preposition edit

ren

  1. with (third person singular)

Cimbrian edit

Verb edit

ren

  1. to speak
  2. to talk

References edit

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /reːˀn/, [ˈʁæˀn]

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse hreinn m, from Proto-Germanic *hrainaz, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, Old English hrān.

Noun edit

ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rener)

  1. reindeer
    Synonym: rensdyr
Declension edit
Declension of ren
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ren renen rener renerne
genitive rens renens reners renernes
Derived terms edit

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse rein f, from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German Rain (English rean is from Old Norse).

Noun edit

ren c (singular definite renen, plural indefinite rene or rener)

  1. (rare, real estate, agriculture) a strip of unplowed land serving as a boundary between estates
    Synonym: agerren
Declension edit
Declension of ren
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ren renen rene
rener 		renene
renerne
genitive rens renens renes
reners 		renenes
renernes
Derived terms edit

References edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz, cognate with Norwegian rein, Swedish ren, German rein, Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains).

Adjective edit

ren (neuter rent, plural and definite singular attributive rene)

  1. clean (without dirt)
  2. pure, mere, sheer(without any added elements)
  3. pure (morally)
Inflection edit
Inflection of ren
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular ren renere renest2
Indefinite neuter singular rent renere renest2
Plural rene renere renest2
Definite attributive1 rene renere reneste
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.
Derived terms edit

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Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /rɛn/
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  • Hyphenation: ren
  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Homophone: Ren

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch rinne, renne.

Noun edit

ren f (plural rennen, diminutive rennetje n)

  1. A run; an enclosed area where small or mid-sized livestock such as poultry are kept.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

ren

  1. inflection of rennen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese ren, from Latin rēs nāta, neutral plural of rēs nātum, Latin no things.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

ren

  1. (now literary) nothing
    Synonym: nada
    Antonym: todo

References edit

  • “ren” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “ren” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ren” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ren” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French rein (“kidney”).

Noun edit

ren

  1. kidney

Interlingua edit

Noun edit

ren (plural renes)

  1. kidney

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

ren

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れん

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Several etymologies proposed:[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rēn m (genitive rēnis); third declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) kidney

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rēn rēnēs
Genitive rēnis rēnum
Dative rēnī rēnibus
Accusative rēnem rēnēs
Ablative rēne rēnibus
Vocative rēn rēnēs

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: rână
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North-Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Piedmontese: ren
    • Venetian: reno
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Aragonese: renera
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: rẽes f pl (“hips”) (from the plural)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Spanish: rene (dated)
  • Sardinian:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēna
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēnile
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rēniō (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:
    • → Gheg Albanian: rrâni
    • → English: ren (learned)
    • → Interlingua: ren

References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “rēnēs, -ium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519: “PIt. *rēn-.; PIE *h₂r-ēn, -en- ‘kidney’? *srēn- ‘loins’?”
  2. ^ Mastrelli, Carlo Alberto (1979), “Una nota su lat. rēnēs e gr. ῥάχις”, in Incontri Linguistici, volume 5, pages 37–42
  3. ^ Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, volume 4-6, (please provide a date or year)
  4. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “arañce”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 23
  5. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*āron-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 42

Further reading edit

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ren in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

ren

  1. Nonstandard spelling of rén.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of rěn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of rèn.

Usage notes edit

  • 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 edit

Verb edit

ren

  1. past of jean

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse hreinn.

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /reːn/, [ɾeːn]

Adjective edit

ren (neuter singular rent, definite singular and plural rene, comparative renere, indefinite superlative renest, definite superlative reneste)

  1. clean
  2. pure

Antonyms edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

Occitan edit

Etymology 1 edit

from Latin rēnes < rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren m (plural rens)

  1. (anatomy) kidney
Synonyms edit

Dialectal variants edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin rem, accusative of rēs (“thing”). Compare Catalan res (“nothing”), French rien (“nothing”).

Pronoun edit

ren

  1. (Provençal, Limousin) nothing

Dialectal variants edit

Piedmontese edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren m

  1. kidney

Polish edit

 
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ren

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from North Germanic. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rein, Swedish ren.

Noun edit

ren m anim (feminine reniferzyca)

  1. caribou, reindeer (Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)
    Synonyms: karibu, renifer, renifer tundrowy
Declension edit
Declension of ren
singular plural
nominative ren reny
genitive rena renów
dative renowi renom
accusative rena reny
instrumental renem renami
locative renie renach
vocative renie reny
Related terms edit
adjective
noun

Etymology 2 edit

Learned borrowing from Latin rhenium.

Noun edit

Chemical element
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ren m inan

  1. rhenium
Declension edit
Declension of ren
singular
nominative ren
genitive renu
dative renowi
accusative ren
instrumental renem
locative renie
vocative renie

Further reading edit

  • ren in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ren in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

 
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Un ren

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French renne, from Swedish ren, from Old Norse hreinn.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren m (plural reni)

  1. reindeer

Declension edit

Declension of ren
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ren renul (niște) reni renii
genitive/dative (unui) ren renului (unor) reni renilor
vocative renule renilor

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xrěnъ.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rȅn m (Cyrillic spelling ре̏н)

  1. horseradish

Declension edit

Declension of ren
singular
nominative rȅn
genitive rèna
dative renu
accusative ren
vocative rene
locative renu
instrumental renom

Swedish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse hreinn (noun).

Noun edit

ren c

  1. reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
  2. (chiefly in compounds) a strip of land around an edge (of a road or field or the like)
Declension edit
Declension of ren 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ren renen renar renarna
Genitive rens renens renars renarnas
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse hreinn (“clean”), from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz.

Adjective edit

ren (comparative renare, superlative renast)

  1. clean; not dirty
  2. pure
    en ren lögn
    a pure lie
    ren idioti
    pure idiocy
Declension edit
Inflection of ren
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular ren renare renast
Neuter singular rent renare renast
Plural rena renare renast
Masculine plural3 rene 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.
3) Dated or archaic
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Tok Pisin edit

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Etymology edit

From English rain.

Noun edit

ren

  1. rain
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:5:
      ...i no gat diwai na gras samting i kamap long graun yet, long wanem, em i no salim ren i kam daun yet. Na i no gat man bilong wokim gaden.
      →New International Version translation

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren • (蓮, 𨕡)

  1. threading

Verb edit

ren • (蓮, 𨕡)

  1. to thread; lace; weave

Wolof edit

Noun edit

ren

  1. last year

References edit

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 155

Wutunhua edit

Etymology edit

From Mandarin 人 (rén).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ren

  1. person

References edit

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
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