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Latin
Etymology
Univerbation of rē + eāpse, older form of ipsā, later perhaps interpreted as ab sē. Eventually replaced/renewed by rē ipsā.
Pronunciation
Adverb
reāpse (not comparable)
- in reality, in actual fact, in practice (as opposed to in imagination)
T. Maccius Plautus,
Truculentus 815:
- Idem istuc ipsa, etsī tū taceās, reāpse experta intellegō.
- You don't need to tell me, I know that by my own personal experience.
M. Tullius Cicero,
De Divinatione:
- Obiciuntur etiam saepe fōrmae, quae reāpse nūllae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.
- Apparitions often present themselves, and though they have no real substance, they seem to have it.
- (modal) actually, really
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Further reading
- “reapse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reapse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reapse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)