reapse

Latin

Etymology

From rē + eāpse, old form of (eā) ipsā.

Adverb

rēapse (not comparable)

  1. in fact, actually, really
    • T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus
      Idem istuc ipsa reapse experta intellego.
      Actually, I myself know this full well
      M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione
      Obiciuntur saepe formae, quae reapse nullae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.
      Apparitions present themselves often as having substance while, in fact, they do not.

References

  • reapse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • reapse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • reapse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)
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