rea

English

Noun

rea (plural reas)

1. Alternative form of rei

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

rea f (plural rees)

1. female equivalent of reu

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reu

Estonian

Noun

rea

1. genitive singular of rida

Galician

Etymology

Related to riola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

rea f (plural reas)

1. row

   Synonyms: fila, ringleira, riola

   • 1928, Avelino Gómez Ledo, Borreas:

     pola aldea espallabanse as notas das campás que chamaban ás xentes aldeás pra compañar o Viáteco; unha rea de mulleres e d'homes corretea por carreiros e atallos a compás

     along the hamlet, the bells' notes spread, calling the peasants to accompany the viaticum; a row of women and men go along roads and cutoffs steadily

References

• “rea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “rea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reo

Anagrams

• -are, -erà, Era, are, era

Japanese

Romanization

rea

1. Rōmaji transcription of レア

Latin

Etymology

See reus (“accused, guilty”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/,

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

1. defendant, accused
2. (archaic) plaintiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to strike a person's name off the list of the accused: eximere de reis aliquem
    

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

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”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

rea

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of rău

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: re‧a

Noun

rea f (plural reas)

1. female equivalent of reo

Adjective

rea f

1. feminine singular of reo

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

rea (n class, plural rea)

1. Alternative form of ree

See also

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
ree, rea, rei	mbili	tatu	nne	tano	sita	saba
nane	tisa	kumi	ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu	malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi	mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha	jokari

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of realisation.

Noun

rea c

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

Declension

Related terms

• bokrea
• reapris
• slutrea

See also

• reaförlust
• reaplan
• reavinst

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Anagrams

• -are, -era, era