rebus

Etymology

From French rébus, from Latin rebus (ablative plural of res (“thing”)), taken either from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur "concerning the things that are taking place", used in sixteenth-century Picardie as the name for satirical pieces containing picture-riddles, or from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rébus meaning "not by words but by things".

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'bəs, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbəs/
• Rhymes: -iːbəs

Noun

rebus (plural rebuses)

1. A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
2. (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.

Verb

rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses, present participle rebusing, simple past and past participle rebused)

1. (transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
   • Fuller

     He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the rebus

Anagrams

• Burse, Suber, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, resub, rubes, suber, urbes

Etymology

French rébus, from Latin rebus.

Noun

rebus

1. rebus.

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Noun

rebus c (singular definite rebussen, plural indefinite rebusser)

1. rebus (puzzle)

Verb

rebus

1. first-person singular past historic of reboire
2. second-person singular past historic of reboire

Participle

rebus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of reboire

Anagrams

• beurs

Noun

rebus m (invariable)

1. rebus
2. enigma
3. puzzle

Noun

rēbus

1. dative plural of res
2. ablative plural of res

References

• rebus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Adjective

rebus

1. boiled (food)

Verb

rebus (used in the form merebus)

1. to boil (food)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rěːbus/
• Hyphenation: re‧bus

Noun

rébus m (Cyrillic spelling ре́бус)

1. rebus

Noun

rebus c

1. a rebus; a kind of word puzzle

References

• Rebus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)