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.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈreː]

• Audio:

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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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• [1]

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rˠeː/

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 Case Singular Plural Nominative ré réite Vocative a ré a réite Genitive ré réite Dative ré réite

Forms with the definite article Case 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 1

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (agriculture) row
2. lineage, row

Alternative forms

• rae

Noun 2

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

Alternative forms

• reo

Derived terms

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

 

Declension

Declension of ré

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ré réanna Vocative a ré a réanna Genitive ré réanna Dative ré réanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ré na réanna Genitive na ré na réanna Dative leis an ré don ré leis na réanna

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 Case Singular Plural Nominative ré réanna Vocative a ré a réanna Genitive ré réanna Dative ré réanna

Forms with the definite article Case 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
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ré”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ré”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ré”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Mandarin

Romanization

ré (re², Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)

1. Template:pinyin reading of

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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 remi-, are from the superlative *ɸrīsamos (compare Latin prīmus (“first”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲeː/

Preposition

ré (with the dative; triggers eclipsis)

1. before

Inflection

Inflection of ré

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	rium	riumsa
2d person sing.	riut
3d sing. masc./neut., dative	rïam, ríam
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative
3d sing. fem., dative	remi	remisi
3d sing. fem., accusative
1st person pl.	riun
2d person pl.	reuib
3d person pl., dative	remib
3d person pl., 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

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, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 275, 527–28
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ/
• Hyphenation: ré

Etymology 1

From Latin re[sonare] 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 retro.

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

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

Etymology 3

Adjective

ré f sg

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective réu.

Noun

ré f sg

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of noun réu.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ré

1. to trumpet