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rete

See also: rete-, retè, reté, and réte

English

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

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rete.

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Noun

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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.

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'Are'are

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rete

  1. be good

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin rēte.

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rete m

  1. net

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Asturian

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rete

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

Chamicuro

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Etymology

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From Spanish red.

Noun

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rete

  1. net

Chuukese

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Etymology

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re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

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rete

  1. they will never
  2. so they do not
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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

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rete

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

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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rete

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

Galician

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Verb

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rete

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

Guaraní

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Noun

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rete

  1. dependent form of tete

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French rester.

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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

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Etymology

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

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rete (plural retes)

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

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin rēte (“net”).

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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)
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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

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

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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

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References

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  • “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

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Verb

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rete

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

Ternate

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rete

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

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

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