Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1625.rēs on page 1625
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rēs thing
rēs is a Latin Noun that primarily means thing.
Definitions for rēs
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
thing, matter, business, affair
English derivatives:
real realistic realize reality real estate
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Property, wealth. (b) (pl. often scarcely distinguishable in sense from sg.) goods, possessions. (c) (in formula on the dissolution of a marriage) tibi res tuas habeas, habe, etc., take your goods (and go). (d) res familiaris, private property; res soli, real property (also contrasted with res mobilis). (e) (leg.) action in rem, an action over a claim to property.
- 2
(w. defining adj.) What one has or requires (of a particular commodity), a supply.
- 3
That which can be conceived as a separate entity (in a concrete or abstract sense), any object of imagination or experience, a thing. (b) (used of people, esp. in disparaging sense). (c) (in vituperative phr.) ire, abire (in) malam rem, to 'go to hell'.
Sentences with rēs
Latin to English
Multae rēs bonae in mediā urbe vīsae sunt.Compare Many good things were seen in the middle of the city.
Eō diē multās rēs cum spē parāvērunt.Compare On that day they prepared many things hopefully.
Ipse, ā sene secundō adiūtus, pecūniā carrentibus multās rēs dabat.Compare Having himself been helped by the second old man, he kept giving many things to those lacking money.
Pecūnia ipsa nōn est mala: sed rēs mentis animīque plūs opis ad fēliciter vīvendum offerunt.Compare Money itself is not bad; but the things of the mind and the soul offer more help for living happily.
Omnis enim res, virtus, fama, divina humanaque pulchris divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille clarus erit, fortus, iustus. "sapiensne?" etiam, et rex et quiquid volet.Compare Riches,you know, are the beautiful things: everything else, worth, repute, honor, things divine and things human, bow down to them. Any one who has gathered a pile of them will be famous, gallant, just. "And wise too?" Certainly - and a king and anything else he could wish.
Caveo semper, ne quis in res asper aut inhumanus sum videor.Compare You will always have to take care lest you should appear to have been too rough or unfeeling in any matter.
Auxilium satis superque habeo; sed qui multus sum, multus res egeo.Compare I have enough and too many allies; but the more numerous we are, the more things shall we require.
Cognitio hic res ad beate vivo necessarius non duco.Compare We do not consider the knowledge of these things necessary for living happily.
Declension table for rēs
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | rēs | rēs |
| Gen. | reī | rērum |
| Dat. | reī | rēbus |
| Acc. | rem | rēs |
| Abl. | rē | rēbus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 143.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1625.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "rēs, reī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 25, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/res-rei.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 143.rēs, reī on page 143
