rea

See also: Rea, REA, and réa

English

Noun

rea (plural reas)

1. Alternative form of rei

Anagrams

• 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, ERA, Rae, aer-, are, aër-, ear, era

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Catalan

Noun

rea f (plural rees)

1. female equivalent of reu

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reu

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Estonian

Noun

rea

1. genitive singular of rida

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: rè‧a

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reo

Anagrams

• -are, -erà, Era, are, era

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Latin

Etymology

See reus (“accused, guilty”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈreä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈrɛːä]

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

1. defendant, accused
2. (archaic) plaintiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rea	reae
Genitive	reae	reārum
Dative	reae	reīs
Accusative	ream	reās
Ablative	reā	reīs
Vocative	rea	reae

References

• “rea”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “rea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to strike a person's name off the list of the accused: eximere de reis aliquem
    

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Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish reithe (“ram”).

Noun

rea m (genitive singular rea, plural reaghyn)

1. male sheep, ram, tup

   Cha row rea lhean lheeah rieau roauyr.

   A wide grey ram was never fat.

Derived terms

• conrea
• faase rea
• Rea
• rea caggee

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish réid (“level, smooth”), from Proto-Celtic *rēdi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁réh₁-dʰi, from *h₁réh₁ (“sparsely, rarely, loosely”).

Adjective

rea

1. even, flat, level
2. smooth, sleek
3. horizontal
4. plain, facile
5. clear (as water)
6. steady, easy of manner
7. regular, continuous

Derived terms

• neurea (“lumpy, rough, scraggy; entangled; uneven”)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re̯a]

Adjective

rea

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of rău

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Spanish

Adjective

rea f

1. feminine singular of reo

Noun

rea f (plural reas, masculine reo, masculine plural reos)

1. female equivalent of reo

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

rea (n class, plural rea)

1. Alternative form of ree

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Swedish

Bokrea (book sale).

Etymology

See realisation.

Noun

rea c

1. a sale (sale of goods at reduced prices); short for realisation

Declension

Declension of rea
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rea	rean	reor	reorna
Genitive	reas	reans	reors	reornas

Related terms

• bokrea
• reapris
• slutrea

See also

• reaplan

Verb

rea (present rear, preterite reade, supine reat, imperative rea)

1. to sell out at reduced prices (at a sale); short for realisera

Conjugation

Conjugation of rea (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	rea		reas
Supine	reat		reats
Imperative	rea		—
Imper. plural1	reen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	rear	reade	reas	reades
Ind. plural1	rea	reade	reas	reades
Subjunctive2	ree	reade	rees	reades
	Participles
Present participle	reande
Past participle	read
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Anagrams

• -are, -era, era