rea

See also: Rea, REA, and re'a

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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Italian

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reo

Anagrams

• are
• era, Era

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

1. defendant, accused
2. (archaic) plaintiff
3. vocative singular of rea
4. ablative singular of rea

Inflection

First declension.

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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rea” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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

Likely 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

Terms derived from rea

• conrea (“tup, ram”) (with undescended testicles)
• faase rea (“half-castrated tup”)

• rea caggee (“battering ram”)

• Yn Rea (“Aries”)

Etymology 2

Likely from Old Irish réid (“level, smooth”).

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. feminine singular nominative form of rău
2. feminine singular accusative form of rău

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Spanish

Noun

rea f (plural reas, masculine reo)

1. feminine equivalent of reo

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Swedish

Bokrea (book sale).

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
Present tense	rear	reas
Past tense	reade	reades
Supine	reat	reats
Imperative	rea	—
Present participle	reande
Past participle	read