rês

See also: Appendix:Variations of "res"

Franco-Provençal

Noun

rês

plural of rê

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rēs (“thing, property”). The etymology Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle) is no longer considered valid. While the latter is a perfect semantic match, the front vowel of the Romance form speaks against an Arabic origin because dialects generally maintain a back -a- in this word (compare Maltese ras, not *ries). For the sense evolution in the former derivation, compare English cattle.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -es

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe(j)s/ [ˈhe(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe(j)ʃ/ [ˈχe(ɪ̯)ʃ]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁeʃ/

Noun

rês f (plural reses)

neat (food animal)