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re en · ADP · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiː/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɹeɪ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Meanings

  1. About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
    • "I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words." 2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024:
    • Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254

Relateds

RE · in rem · in re

Synonyms

apropos · re · touching · as for · connected with · in regards to · IRT · anent · as for · about · respecting · WRT · relating to · about · in reference to · with respect to · dealing with · in relation to · concerning · relative to · regarding · concerned with · referring to · in terms of · in respect of · in regard to · as respects · apropos · as relates to · with regard to · apropos of · as to · as regards · on · as far as

Translations (13)

da angående (regarding) · pl co do (regarding) · el περί (regarding) · da hvad angår (regarding) · ja(regarding) · es asunto (regarding) · nl (wat) betreft (regarding) · ar فِي مَا يَخُصّ (regarding) · es con respecto a (regarding) · arz عن (regarding) · es con relación a (regarding) · arz الي يخص (regarding) · de AW (regarding)

Source: en.wiktionary, “re” (prep), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

re en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ɹeɪ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

Forms

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ray alternative lexicographic

Translations (16)

vi(the second note in solfège) · pt(the second note in solfège) · ar رِي (the second note in solfège) · el ρε (the second note in solfège) · ko(the second note in solfège) · ar رِي (the second note in solfège) · ja(the second note in solfège) · mk ре (the second note in solfège) · ru ре (the second note in solfège) · ga(the second note in solfège) · da re (the second note in solfège) · fi re (the second note in solfège) · fr(the second note in solfège) · hu re (the second note in solfège) · eu re (the second note in solfège) · th เร (the second note in solfège)

wikipedia: Ut queant laxis

Source: en.wiktionary, “re” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

re en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɹiː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɹiː/ (General-American)

Etymology

From the prefix re-.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of rematch.
    alt of rematch
    • gg, no re'
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, qualifier:age regression) Clipping of age regressor.

Forms

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res Number=Plur lexicographic