re

See also Appendix:Variations of "re"

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Latin re.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹiː/, /reɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ

Preposition

re

1. About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters and documents.

Derived terms

• in re
• in rem

Translations

regarding

Dutch: (wat (nl)) betreft (nl)

Greek: περί (el) (perí)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA: /reɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

re (uncountable)

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

Translations

the second note in solfège

Arabic: ري (ar) (rii, re) m. Basque: re (eu) Greek: ρε (el) (re)

Japanese: レ (ja) (re) Korean: 레 (ko) (le) Russian: ре (ru) (re) n.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

re (uncountable)

1. Reinsurance.

Anagrams

• er , 'er, ER

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Albanian

Noun

re f.

1. cloud

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁeː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *ɸro (compare Welsh rhy, Irish ró-).

Adverb

re

1. too much

Etymology 2

Pronoun

re

1. those

Etymology 3

Noun

re m. (plural reo)

1. pair (of shoes, eyes, etc.)
2. couple

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Catalan

Noun

re m. (plural res)

1. (music) re (second note of diatonic scale)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /re/

Noun

re f. (plural re's, diminutive re'tje)

1. (Netherlands, music) re (second note of a major scale)
2. (Flemish, music) d (tone)

Anagrams

• er

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Interlingua

Preposition

re

1. about

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin rex

Pronunciation

• ré, IPA: /re/, SAMPA: /re/

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• Hyphenation: re

Noun

re m. (plural re)

• king
• (chess) king
• kings
• magnate
• magnates

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• rè, IPA: /rɛ/, SAMPA: /rE/

Noun

re m. (plural re)

• re (musical note)
• D (musical note or key)

See also

• (chess pieces) pezzo degli scacchi; alfiere, cavallo, donna, pedone, re, torre ^{(Category: it:Chess) [edit]}

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Japanese

Syllable

re

1. The hiragana syllable れ (re) or the katakana syllable レ (re) in Hepburn romanization.

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Latin

Noun

rē

1. ablative singular of rēs

Preposition

rē

1. About, regarding, with reference to.

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Lojban

Cmavo

re (rafsi rel)

1. two

Derived terms

• su'ore

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Maltese

Noun

re m.

1. king

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Mandarin

Romanization

re

1. Nonstandard spelling of ré.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rě.
3. Nonstandard spelling of rè.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Serui-Laut

Noun

re

1. eye

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Turkish

Noun

re

1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze ^{(Category: tr:Latin letter names) [edit]}

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Wandamen

Noun

re

1. eye