# rere
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Hiberno-English) IPA: /ɾiːɾ/
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

### Noun

rere (plural reres)
* Archaic spelling of rear (all meanings).
* (Ireland, law, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)

#### Quotations

* 1678 "In the rere of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." The Triumphs of London (Reprinted 1869 in Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath)
* 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere, to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne
* 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33
* 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere." Ulysses, Chapter V James Joyce
* 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule
* 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area
* 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
* 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere, and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent, 18 November 2009

#### Derived terms

* reredos

### See also

* reredorter
* rere-supper

### References

* rere at Wordnik

### Anagrams

* REER, erer

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* rera

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin retrō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈre.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈre.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -eɾe

### Adverb

rere
* behind, at the back
    Synonym: darrere

#### Derived terms

* enrere

### Preposition

rere
* behind, at the back of
* after (behind in place)
* after, by
    any rere any ― year by year

#### Synonyms

* darrere

### References

* “rere” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “rere”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “rere” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “rere” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Verb

rēre
* second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of reor

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English hrēr, from hrēran (see reren (“to rile”)).

#### Alternative forms

* hrere

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈreːr(ə)/

#### Adjective

rere
* Referring to eggs: underdone, undercooked; soft-boiled
* (rare) Referring to sins: unconfessed

##### Descendants

* English: rear, rare (of meat)
* ⇒ Yola: raree

##### References

* “rẹ̄re, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

### Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman rere, from Latin retro.

#### Alternative forms

* reere

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

#### Adjective

rere
* (rare outside of compounds) Succeeding, successive, next, following.
* (rare) Located at the rear, hind, or back.

##### Related terms

* rerebrace
* reredos
* rereward

##### Descendants

* English: rear
* Scots: rear

##### References

* “rēre, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

### Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman rier, rere.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

#### Adverb

rere (hapax, Late Middle English)
* Not at all, neither in front nor behind;
* Neither sooner nor later?

##### Descendants

* ⇒ Yola: raree (<*rare)

##### References

* “rēre, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

rere
* Alternative form of reren (“to raise”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

rere
* Alternative form of reren (“to rile”)

### Etymology 6
#### Adjective

rere
* Alternative form of rare (“thin, airy, rare”)

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French rere, from Latin rādere.

### Verb

rere
* to shave

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Latin retrō.

#### Adjective

rere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rere)
* late
* after; later on

#### Adverb

rere
* behind
    Constaunce […] lui vient rere au doos et le trebucha en la mere.Constance […] came behind his back and knocked him into the sea

##### Derived terms

* rereguarde

### Etymology 2

From Latin rādere.

#### Alternative forms

* raer, raire, reire

#### Verb

rere
* to shave
** c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:Se fist par mi la barbe rereHe shaved his beard
* to scrape off, raze
* to erase

##### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

##### Related terms

* res
* raser

##### Descendants

* Middle French: rere

### References

rere on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Rapa Nui
### Verb

rere
* fly