reo

English

Etymology 1

From re(inforcement) +‎ -o.

Noun

reo (plural reos)

1. (Australia, World War I, informal) A reinforcement (additional soldiers).

Etymology 2

From re(-entry) +‎ -o.

Noun

reo (plural reos)

1. (Australia, surfing, informal) A re-entry (climbing a wave and then returning down its face).

Etymology 3

From re(inforcing) +‎ -o.

Noun

reo (uncountable)

1. (Australia, construction, informal) Steel used to reinforce concrete.

Galician

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin reus (“accused”). Compare Portuguese réu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreo̝/

Noun

reo m (plural reos, feminine rea, feminine plural reas)

1. convict
2. person accused of a crime

Etymology 2

Probably from Late Latin rhēdō, of probable Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreo̝/

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

1. 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

• “reo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “reos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “reo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “reo (condenado)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “reo (peixe)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “reo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɾˠoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠɔː/

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)

1. verbal noun of reoigh (“freeze; congeal, solidify”)
2. frost

Declension

Alternative forms

• reodh (obsolete)
• reódh (obsolete)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

reo f or m (genitive singular reo, nominative plural reoanna)

1. 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
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “reód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

 reo on Italian Wikipedia

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)

1. guilty (of)

Noun

reo m (plural rei)

1. offender

Anagrams

• -erò, -ore, Ero, Ore, ero, ore

Latin

Noun

reō m

1. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾɛ.ɔ/

Noun

reo

1. voice
2. speech, utterance
3. language

Derived terms

• reo tupu
• te reo

Old High German

Etymology

Cognate to Old Norse hræ.

Noun

rēo n

1. 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

1. voice
2. speech
3. 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)

1. defendant (as in a trial)
2. 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)

1. accused of a crime
2. found guilty of a crime

Etymology 2

Uncertain; probably from Celto-Latin rhēdō, redo.

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

1. (zoology) sea trout

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Catalan reu.

Noun

reo m (plural reos)

1. turn (in a game)

   Synonyms: vez, turno

Derived terms

Further reading

• “reo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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”).

Noun

reo

1. language

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

reo

1. (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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Verb

reo • (嘹, 僚)

1. to shout in cheer or to express eagerness
2. (of an alarm) to ring

   Chuông báo thức reo lúc 6 rưỡi sáng.

   The alarm goes off at 6:30 A.M.

See also