ré

See also: Appendix:Variations of "re"

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe/
  • Audio (Paris)(file)

Noun

ré m (plural ré)

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

Further reading

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈreː]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

solmisation

ré (plural rék)

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

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rˠeː/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ré f (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réite)

  1. stretch of ground; level ground
  2. field
Declension
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

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

Noun 1

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

  1. (agriculture) row
  2. lineage, row
Alternative forms

Noun 2

ré f, 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
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Declension

Etymology 3

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.

Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

  1. (music) re
Declension

Further reading

  • Entries containing “ré” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “ré” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Mandarin

Romanization

ré (Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 若

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁɛ/
  • Hyphenation: ré

Etymology 1

From Latin re[sonare] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

ré m (plural rés)

  1. re (musical note)
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

From Latin retro.

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

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

Etymology 3

Adjective

ré f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective réu.

Noun

ré f sg

  1. Feminine singular of noun réu.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

ré

  1. to trumpet
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