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

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

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

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. 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 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”).

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 feminine singular of rău
2. accusative feminine singular of rău

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Spanish

Noun

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

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of reo

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Swahili

Noun

rea (n class, plural rea)

1. Alternative form of ree

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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
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