rea

See also: Rea, REA, and réa

English

Noun

rea (plural reas)

Alternative form of rei

Anagrams

'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, ERA, Rae, aer-, are, aër-, ear, era

Catalan

Noun

rea f (plural rees)

female equivalent of reu

Adjective

rea

feminine singular of reu

Estonian

Noun

rea

genitive singular of rida

Galician

Etymology

Related to riola.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈreɐ]

Noun

rea f (plural reas)

row
- 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
Synonyms: fila, ringleira, riola

References

“rea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“rea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“rea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.a/
Rhymes: -ɛa
Hyphenation: rè‧a

Adjective

rea

feminine singular of reo

Anagrams

-are, -erà, Era, are, era

Latin

Etymology

See reus (“accused, guilty”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈreä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.a/, [ˈrɛːä]

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

defendant, accused
(archaic) plaintiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to strike a person's name off the list of the accused: eximere de reis aliquem

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish reithe (“ram”).

Noun

rea m (genitive singular rea, plural reaghyn)

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 *rēdi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁réh₁-dʰi, from *h₁réh₁ (“sparsely, rarely, loosely”).

Adjective

rea

even, flat, level
smooth, sleek
horizontal
plain, facile
clear (as water)
steady, easy of manner
regular, continuous

Derived terms

neurea (“lumpy, rough, scraggy; entangled; uneven”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [re̯a]

Adjective

rea

nominative/accusative feminine singular of rău

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrea/ [ˈre.a]
Rhymes: -ea
Syllabification: re‧a

Noun

rea f (plural reas)

female equivalent of reo

Adjective

rea f

feminine singular of reo

Swahili

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

rea (n class, plural rea)

Alternative form of ree

Swedish

Bokrea (book sale).

Etymology

Clipping of realisation.

Noun

rea c

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

Declension

Declension of rea
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rea	rean	reor	reorna
Genitive	reas	reans	reors	reornas

Related terms

bokrea
reapris
slutrea

Verb

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

to sell out at reduced prices (at a sale); short for realisera

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
	Participles
Present participle	reande
Past participle	read
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Anagrams

-are, -era, era