rere
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See also: rërë
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rere (plural reres)
- Archaic spelling of rear (all meanings).
- (Ireland, law, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
Quotations
[edit]- 1678 "In the rere of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." The Triumphs of London (Reprinted 1869 in Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath)
- 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere, to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne
- 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33
- 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere." Ulysses, Chapter V James Joyce
- 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule
- 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area
- 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
- 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere, and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent, 18 November 2009
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- rere at Wordnik
Anagrams
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]rere
Derived terms
[edit]Preposition
[edit]rere
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “rere” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rere”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “rere” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rere” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]rēre
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English hrēr, from hrēran (see reren (“to rile”)).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rere
- Referring to eggs: underdone, undercooked; soft-boiled
- (rare) Referring to sins: unconfessed
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “rẹ̄re, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Anglo-Norman rere, from Latin retro.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rere
- (rare outside of compounds) Succeeding, successive, next, following.
- (rare) Located at the rear, hind, or back.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “rēre, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.
Etymology 3
[edit]From Anglo-Norman rier, rere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]rere (hapax, Late Middle English)
- Not at all, neither in front nor behind;
- Neither sooner nor later?
Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Yola: raree (<*rare)
References
[edit]- “rēre, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
[edit]Verb
[edit]rere
- Alternative form of reren (“to raise”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]rere
- Alternative form of reren (“to rile”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rere
- Alternative form of rare (“thin, airy, rare”)
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French rere, from Latin rādere.
Verb
[edit]rere
- to shave
Old French
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rere)
Adverb
[edit]rere
- behind
- Constaunce […] lui vient rere au doos et le trebucha en la mere.
- Constance […] came behind his back and knocked him into the sea
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]rere
- to shave
- c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Se fist par mi la barbe rere
- He shaved his beard
- to scrape off, raze
- to erase
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of rere (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | rere | avoir res | |||||
gerund | en reant, raant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | reant, raant | ||||||
past participle | res | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | re | rez | ret | reons, raons | reez, raez | reent |
imperfect | reoie, reeie, raoie, raeie | reoies, reeies, raoies, raeies | reoit, reeit, raoit, raeit | reïiens, reïens, raïiens, raïens | reïiez, reïez, raïiez, raïez | reoient, reeient, raoient, raeient | |
preterite | res | reṣis | rest | reṣimes | reṣistes | resdrent | |
future | rerai | reras | rera | rerons | reroiz, rereiz, rerez | reront | |
conditional | reroie, rereie | reroies, rereies | reroit, rereit | reriiens, reriens | reriiez, reriez | reroient, rereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | ree | rees | ree | reons, raons | reez, raez | reent |
imperfect | reṣisse | reṣisses | reṣist | reṣissons, reṣissiens | reṣissoiz, reṣissez, reṣissiez | reṣissent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | re | — | reons, raons | reez, raez | — |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: rere
References
[edit]rere on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Rapa Nui
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