# ré
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁe/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

ré m (plural ré)
* (music) re, the note 'D'

### Further reading

* “ré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈreː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -reː

### Noun

ré (plural rék)
* re, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale
    Coordinate terms: dó, mi, fá, szó, lá, ti

#### Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

### Further reading

* (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

### Anagrams

* ér

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɾˠeː/

### 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)
* stretch of ground; level ground
* field

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
ré
réite
vocative
a ré
a réite
genitive
ré
réite
dative
ré
réite
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an ré
na réite
genitive
na ré
na réite
dative
leis an ré don ré
leis na réite :

##### Alternative forms

* rae

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)
* (agriculture) row
* lineage, row

##### Alternative forms

* rae

#### Noun

ré f or m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)
* (archaic) moon; phase of moon; month
* period
** portion of time
** span of life, of career
** age, era, epoch
* (literary) space, intervening distance

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
ré
réanna
vocative
a ré
a réanna
genitive
ré
réanna
dative
ré
réanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an ré
na réanna
genitive
na ré
na réanna
dative
leis an ré don ré
leis na réanna :

##### Alternative forms

* reo

##### Derived terms

* leathré (“half-life”)
* roimh ré (“in advance, beforehand”)

### 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)
* (music) re

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
ré
réanna
vocative
a ré
a réanna
genitive
ré
réanna
dative
ré
réanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an ré
na réanna
genitive
na ré
na réanna
dative
leis an ré don ré
leis na réanna :

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ré”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ré”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “ré”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Mandarin
### Romanization

ré (re$^2$, Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 若

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* re, ri, ría

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrīs (compare Gaulish ris), from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with English first and Latin prīscus (“former”). The eclipsis trigger is analogical to íar (“after”). The inflected forms in -m, as well as the cognate prefix rem-, are from the superlative *ɸrīsamos (compare Latin prīmus (“first”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [r͈ʲeː]

### Preposition

ré (with the dative; triggers eclipsis)
* before
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111$^c$13
    Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

#### Inflection

Combined with a definite article:
* resin(d) (“before the sg”)
Combined with a possessive determiner:
* rem (“before my”)
* renna, rinna, rena (“before his/her/its/their”)
Combined with a relative pronoun:
* resa

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Irish: roimh (from rïam (third-person singular masculine))

### References

* ↑ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 528; reprinted 2017

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “6 ré, ría”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 275, 527–28; reprinted 2017
* Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈhɛ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈhɛ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɛ/ [ˈχɛ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: ré

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

ré m (plural rés)
* re (musical note)

##### Coordinate terms

* (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

### Etymology 2

From Latin retrō.

#### Noun

ré f (plural rés)
* (nautical) stern (rear part of a ship or vessel)
* (Brazil) reverse (gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards)
    Synonyms: (Brazil) marcha à ré, (Brazil) marcha a ré, (Portugal) marcha-atrás

### Etymology 3

From Latin rea.

#### Adjective

ré f sg
* feminine singular of réu

#### Noun

ré f (plural rés)
* female equivalent of réu

### References

* 1 2 3 “ré”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zɛ˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐɛ˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹɛ˦˥]

### Verb

ré • (㕽, 哩)
* to screech