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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From re(inforcement) + -o .
Noun
reo (plural reos )
( Australia , World War I , informal ) A reinforcement (additional soldiers).
Etymology 2
From re(-entry) + -o .
Noun
reo (plural reos )
( Australia , surfing , informal ) A re-entry (climbing a wave and then returning down its face).
Etymology 3
From re(inforcing) + -o .
Noun
reo (uncountable )
( Australia , construction , informal ) Steel used to reinforce concrete .
Anagrams
Ore , ROE , öre , roe , eor , Roe , ORE , RoE , Ore. , ore , o'er , OER , EOR
Galician
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin reus ( “ accused ” ) . Compare Portuguese réu .
Pronunciation
Noun
reo m (plural reos , feminine rea , feminine plural reas )
convict
person accused of a crime
Etymology 2
Probably from Late Latin rhēdō , of probable Gaulish origin.
Reo
Pronunciation
Noun
reo m (plural reos )
sea trout
1417 , Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422) . Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas a quatro dineiros cada libra
Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of basses and of young basses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams , four diñeiros each pound
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “reo ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “reos ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “reo ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “reo (condenado) ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “reo (peixe) ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “reo ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish reód , from Old Irish réud , from Proto-Celtic *ɸreswos , from Proto-Indo-European *prews- .
Noun
reo m (genitive singular reo )
verbal noun of reoigh ( “ freeze; congeal, solidify ” )
frost
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
reo f or m (genitive singular reo , nominative plural reoanna )
alternative form of ré ( “ moon; period; space, intervening distance ” )
Declension
Feminine
Masculine
Further reading
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “reo ”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “reód ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reus ( “ defendant, accused ” ) . Cognate to rio ( “ bad ” ) , inherited from the same source.
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈrɛ.o/
Rhymes: -ɛo
Hyphenation: rè‧o
Adjective
reo (feminine rea , masculine plural rei , feminine plural ree )
guilty (of)
Noun
reo m (plural rei )
offender
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
reō m
dative / ablative singular of reus
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *leo , from Proto-Oceanic *leqo , doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo , from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ , from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ ( “ neck ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
reo
voice
speech , utterance
language
Derived terms
Old High German
Etymology
Cognate to Old Norse hræ .
Noun
rēo n
corpse
Rarotongan
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *leo , from Proto-Oceanic *leqo , doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo , from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ , from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ ( “ neck ” ) .
Noun
reo
voice
speech
language
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈreo/
Rhymes: -eo
Syllabification: re‧o
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin reus ( “ accused ” ) . Compare Portuguese réu .
Noun
reo m (plural reos , feminine rea , feminine plural reas )
defendant (as in a trial )
delinquent
2021 June 20, Carlos E. Cué, “Las razones de los nueve indultos: “Fomentar la convivencia en Cataluña””, in El País :Esto es, quedarán anulados si el reo vuelve a cometer un delito penado con entre tres y cinco años de prisión. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
reo (feminine rea , masculine plural reos , feminine plural reas )
accused of a crime
found guilty of a crime
Etymology 2
Uncertain; probably from Celto-Latin rhēdō , redo .
Noun
reo m (plural reos )
( zoology ) sea trout
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Catalan reu .
Noun
reo m (plural reos )
turn ( in a game )
Synonyms: vez , turno
Derived terms
Further reading
Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *leo , from Proto-Oceanic *leqo , doublet of Proto-Oceanic *liqo , from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ , from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ ( “ neck ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
reo
language
Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
reo
( transitive ) to make something smooth
Conjugation
References
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001 ) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia , University of Pittsburgh
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Verb
reo • (嘹 , 僚 )
to shout in cheer or to express eagerness
( of an alarm ) to ring
Chuông báo thức reo lúc 6 rưỡi sáng. The alarm goes off at 6:30 A.M.
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