rete

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See also: rete-, retè, reté, and réte

English

An astrolabe (made by Georg Hartmann, 1537), with rete (rotating overlay representing the horizon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rete.

Pronunciation

Noun

rete (plural retes or retia)

  1. (anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves.
  2. An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
  3. A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin rēte.

Noun

rete m

  1. net

References

'Are'are

Verb

rete

  1. be good

References

Asturian

Verb

rete

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of retar

Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish red.

Noun

rete

  1. net

Chuukese

Etymology

re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

rete

  1. they will never
  2. so they do not
Present and past tense Negative tense Future Negative future Distant future Negative determinate
Singular First person ua use upwe usap upwap ute
Second person ka, ke kose, kese kopwe, kepwe kosap, kesap kopwap, kepwap kote, kete
Third person a ese epwe esap epwap ete
Plural First person aua (exclusive)
sia (inclusive)		 ause (exclusive)
sise (inclusive)		 aupwe (exclusive)
sipwe (inclusive)		 ausap (exclusive)
sisap (inclusive)		 aupwap (exclusive)
sipwap (inclusive)		 aute (exclusive)
site (inclusive)
Second person oua ouse oupwe ousap oupwap oute
Third person ra, re rese repwe resap repwap rete


Dutch

Verb

rete

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of rijten

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrete]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: re‧te

Adverb

rete

  1. with a net
  2. Clipping of interrete: on the Internet

Galician

Verb

rete

  1. inflection of retar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Guaraní

Noun

rete

  1. dependent form of tete

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rester.

Pronunciation

Verb

rete

  1. to live, reside
  2. to stay
    • (Can we date this quote?), Rit 1:16‎[1]:
      Kote ou prale, mwen prale avè ou. Kote ou rete, m'a rete avè ou. Se moun pa ou yo ki va moun pa m'. Bondye w'ap sèvi a, se li m'a sèvi tou.
      Wherever you will go, I will go with you. Wherever you will stay, I will stay with you. Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God.
  3. (idiomatic) Wait a short while.

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rete, Portuguese rede, Spanish red and French réseaux, all ultimately from Latin rēte.

Noun

rete (plural retes)

  1. network (structure of interconnected elements for transit or communication or in a fabric, group of interacting agents)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēte (“net”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rete f (plural reti)

  1. net, mesh
    calze e rete ― fishnet stockings
  2. network
    rete elettrica ― electricity grid
  3. (television) channel
  4. (soccer) goal
  5. base (of a bed)

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rēti-, of uncertain origin. Some theories:

Pronunciation

Noun

rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

  1. net, snare, network
  2. (figuratively) trap
  3. (Contemporary Latin) Web, Internet

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rēte rētia
Genitive rētis rētium
Dative rētī rētibus
Accusative rēte rētia
Ablative rēte
rētī 		rētibus
Vocative rēte rētia

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “rete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rete”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rete in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “rete”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521

Spanish

Verb

rete

  1. inflection of retar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

rete

  1. (transitive) to stack up, pile, layer

Conjugation

Conjugation of rete
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st torete forete mirete
2nd norete nirete
3rd Masculine orete irete, yorete†
Feminine morete
Neuter irete
† - archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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