rede

Alternative forms

• read

Noun

rede (uncountable) (archaic)

1. Help, advice, counsel.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Ophelia:
     Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
     Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
     Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
     Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
     And recks not his own rede.

   • 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede"

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers:

     ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’

2. Decision, a plan.

Verb

rede (third-person singular simple present redes, present participle reding, simple past and past participle red or redd) (transitive, archaic or UK dialectal)

1. To govern, protect.
2. To discuss, deliberate.
3. To advise.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a knyȝtes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus

     Meanwhile, his squire found written upon the cross that Bagdemagus should never again return to the court / till he had won a knight's body of the round table, body for body. / “Lo sir,” said his squire, / “here I find writing about you; / therefore I rede you return again to the court.” / “That I never shall,” said Bagdemagus.

4. To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
   • 1836, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:

     The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

Noun

rede c (singular definite reden, plural indefinite reder)

1. nest (bird-built structure)

References

• “rede,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

Adjective

rede

1. ready
2. prepared

References

• “rede,4” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːˀ/, [ˈʁæˀ]

Verb

rede (past tense redte, past participle redt)

1. to comb (to groom the hair with a toothed implement)
2. to make (a bed)
3. (obsolete) to prepare

References

• “rede,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

Noun

rede (indeclinable)

1. insight, clarification

References

• “rede,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

rede f (plural redes or reden, diminutive redetje n)

1. reason (as a concept)
2. address, discourse, speech

Noun

rede f (plural reden or redens, diminutive redetje n)

1. a place to anchor, anchorage

Verb

rede

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of rijden
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of reden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrede/ [ˈre.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ede
• Hyphenation: re‧de

Noun

rede f (plural redes)

1. net (mesh of strings)
2. fishing net (mesh of strings used to trap fish)
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:

     Homes sandios et jente louqua, nõ deuedes a chamar Santiago caualeiro mais pescador que leixou o barquo et as redes ẽno mar de Galilea et foyse cõ Nostro Señor, et el fezoo pescador dos homes porque por la sua preegaçõ gaanou moytas almas para el.

     Ignorant men and fool people, you shouldn't call Saint James knight but fisherman, because he left his ship and the nets in the sea of Galilee and went away with Our Lord, and He made him a fisherman of men, because through his preaching he gained many souls for Him

3. network (an interconnected group or system)
4. (Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)
5. business chain (businesses with the same brand name)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rede”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rede”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rede”, 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), “rede”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rede”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Verb

rede

1. inflection of redar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Noun

rede m or f by sense (plural redi)

1. (obsolete) Aphetic form of erede

Further reading

• rede in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Noun

rede f pl

1. plural of reda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːd(ə)/

Noun

rede

1. (hapax) abomasum

Noun

rede

1. Alternative form of red (“counsel”)

Noun

rede

1. Alternative form of red (“reed”)

Adjective

rede

1. Alternative form of red (“red”)

Adjective

rede

1. Alternative form of rade

Verb

rede

1. Alternative form of reden
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 709:

     Wel coude he rede a lessoun or a storie, [...]

     He well knew how to read a lesson or a story, [...]

   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3070-3072:

     ‘And, er that we departen from this place,
     I rede that we make, of sorwes two,
     O parfyt Ioye, lasting ever-mo;’ [...]

     ‘And before we depart from this place,
     I advise that we make, of two sorrows,
     One perfect joy, lasting evermore;’ [...]

Adjective

rede (indeclinable)

1. ready
2. prepared

Alternative forms

• reir

Noun

rede n (definite singular redet, indefinite plural reder, definite plural reda or redene)

1. a nest (e.g. bird's nest)

Verb

rede (imperative red, present tense reder, passive redes, simple past and past participle reda or redet, present participle redende)

1. to ascertain
2. to clarify

Pronunciation

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɦe.dɪ/

Noun

rede f (plural redes)

1. net (mesh of strings)
   1. (fishing) Short for rede de pesca (“fishing net”).
   2. (sports) net (mesh behind the goal frame)
   3. hairnet (netting worn over one's hair)
2. (figurative) sieve (something that catches and filters everything)
3. (figurative) web; net; a trap

   Synonyms: cilada, armadilha, ardil

4. hammock (suspended bed or couch made of cloth or netting)

   Synonyms: rede de dormir, rede de descanso

5. network (an interconnected group or system)
   1. (business) chain (businesses with the same brand name)
   2. (broadcasting) network (group of affiliated television stations)
   3. (networking) (computers and other devices connected together to share information)
   4. (Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)

      Synonyms: Internet, Web, Net

   5. an infrastructural system

      Synonym: sistema

      A rede de esgotos. ― The sewer system.

Pronunciation

Verb

rede

1. inflection of redar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Declension