Talk:rebus

About etymology

• From French rébus, from Latin rebus (ablative plural of res ‘thing’), as taken from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur ‘concerning the things that are taking place’, used in sixteenth-century Picardie as the name for satirical pieces containing picture-riddles.

• From the Latin ablative plural form of res "thing" (=rebus "of or by things"), taken from the phrase "nōn verbīs sed rébus" meaning "not by words but by things".

The latter one I found on www.dictionary.com, and the other one doesn't really make as much sense. --BiT 04:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Etymology 2

Pure OR:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ऋभु#Sanskrit

Zezen (talk) 18:32, 28 August 2021 (UTC)