ré

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

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ré m (plural ré)

1. (music) re, the note 'D'

• “ré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈreː]

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• Rhymes: -reː

ré (plural rék)

1. re, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, mi, fá, szó, lá, ti

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ré	rék
accusative	rét	réket
dative	rének	réknek
instrumental	rével	rékkel
causal-final	réért	rékért
translative	révé	rékké
terminative	réig	rékig
essive-formal	réként	rékként
essive-modal	réül	—
inessive	rében	rékben
superessive	rén	réken
adessive	rénél	réknél
illative	rébe	rékbe
sublative	rére	rékre
allative	réhez	rékhez
elative	réből	rékből
delative	réről	rékről
ablative	rétől	réktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	réé	réké
non-attributive possessive - plural	rééi	rékéi

Possessive forms of ré
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	rém	réim
2nd person sing.	réd	réid
3rd person sing.	réje	réi
1st person plural	rénk	réink
2nd person plural	rétek	réitek
3rd person plural	réjük	réik

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

• ér

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠeː/^[1]

From Old Irish roe, rói (“plain”), from Proto-Celtic *rowos. Cognate with Latin rūs. Akin to raon.

ré f (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réite)

1. stretch of ground; level ground
2. field

• rae

From Old Irish ré, possibly from Proto-Celtic *rowis.

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (agriculture) row
2. lineage, row

• rae

ré f or m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (archaic) moon; phase of moon; month
2. period
   1. portion of time
   2. span of life, of career
   3. age, era, epoch
3. (literary) space, intervening distance

• reo

• leathré (“half-life”)
• roimh ré (“in advance, beforehand”)

From Latin resonāre (“to resound”), from the first word of the second line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (music) re

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ré”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ré”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ré”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ɹe˥/

ré

1. (intransitive) to come

• lo

• IPA^(key): /ɹḛ˥/

ré

1. Used to create yes-or-no questions

   Nang ngá bá ri se ré? ― Do you know your father? (Quoting Luk, p.93)

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 16

ré (re², Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 若

• re, ri, ría

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrīs (compare Gaulish ris), from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with English first and Latin prīscus (“former”). The eclipsis trigger is analogical to íar (“after”). The inflected forms in -m, as well as the cognate prefix rem-, are from the superlative *ɸrīsamos (compare Latin prīmus (“first”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [r͈ʲeː]

ré (with the dative; triggers eclipsis)

1. before
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Combined with a definite article:

• resin(d) (“before the sg”)

Combined with a possessive determiner:

• rem (“before my”)
• renna, rinna, rena (“before his/her/its/their”)

Combined with a relative pronoun:

• resa

• ⇒ Irish: roimh (from rïam (third-person singular masculine))

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “6 ré, ría”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 275, 527–28; reprinted 2017
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ré

From Latin re[sonāre] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.^[1]

ré m (plural rés)

1. re (musical note)

• (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

From Latin retrō.^[1]

ré f (plural rés)

1. (nautical) stern (rear part of a ship or vessel)
2. (Brazil) reverse (gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) marcha à ré, (Brazil) marcha a ré, (Portugal) marcha-atrás

From Latin rea.^[1]

ré f sg

1. feminine singular of réu

ré f (plural rés)

1. female equivalent of réu

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɛ˦˥]

ré • (㕽, 哩)

1. to screech