rea

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rea"

Translingual

Symbol

rea

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Rerau.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Rerau terms

English

Noun

rea (plural reas)

1. Alternative form of rei

Anagrams

• 'ear, ear, Åre, EAR, aer-, A.R.E., ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, ERA, era, are, Rae

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈre.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈre.a]

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): [ˈreɐ]

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “rea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈreä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈrɛːä]

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

1. defendant, accused
2. (archaic) plaintiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rea	reae
genitive	reae	reārum
dative	reae	reīs
accusative	ream	reās
ablative	reā	reīs
vocative	rea	reae

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to strike a person's name off the list of the accused: eximere de reis aliquem
    

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reː/

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

• conrea
• faase rea
• Rea
• rea caggee

Etymology 2

From Old Irish réid (“level, smooth”), from Proto-Celtic *reidis.

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): [re̯a]

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

rea

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of rău

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrea/ [ˈre.a]
• 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 class IX (plural rea class X)

1. Alternative form of ree

Swedish

Bokrea (book sale).

Etymology 1

Clipping of realisation.

Noun

rea c

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

Declension

Declension of rea

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rea	reas
	definite	rean	reans
plural	indefinite	reor	reors
	definite	reorna	reornas

Related terms

• bokrea
• reapris
• slutrea

See also

• reaförlust
• reaplan
• reavinst

Etymology 2

Clipping of realisera.

Verb

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

1. to sell (something) at a reduced price (during a sale)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rea (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	rea		reas
supine	reat		reats
imperative	rea		—
imper. plural1	reen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	rear	reade	reas	reades
ind. plural1	rea	reade	reas	reades
subjunctive2	ree	reade	rees	reades
present participle		reande
past participle		read

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• rea in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rea in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• -are, -era, era