rete

See also: rete-, retè, reté, réte, and retë

English

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

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin retebor.

English rete

Borrowed from Latin rete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːti/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːɾi/
• Rhymes: -iːti

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

• rete mirabile
• rete testis

Anagrams

• TREE, Tree, reet, teer, tree

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin rēte.

Noun

rete m

1. net

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “rete”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

'Are'are

Verb

rete

1. be good

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Asturian

Verb

rete

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

Central Malay

Alternative forms

• retau (Manna Serawai)
• reto (Lintang, Talo Serawai)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्थ (artha, “meaning, wealth”). Doublet of reti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rə.ˈta/
  • (Besemah) IPA^(key): [rə.ˈtɨ]
  • (Ogan) IPA^(key): [rə.ˈtɘ]

Noun

rete

1. (Besemah, Ogan) wealth

Derived terms

• berete

References

• Aliana, Z. A.; Arif, R. M.; M Tuwi, M.; Erman, A. M.; Zakaria, A. R. (1985), “rete”, in Kamus Ogan–Indonesia [Ogan–Indonesian dictionary] (in Central Malay), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, pages 165–166
• Sutiono Mahdi (2014), “rete”, in Kamus bahasa Besemah–Indonesia–Inggris [Besemah–Indonesian–English dictionary] (in Central Malay), Jatinangor: Unpad Press, page 297

Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish red.

Noun

rete

1. net

Chuukese

Etymology

re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

rete

1. they will never
2. so they do not

Related terms

			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	exclusive	aua	ause	aupwe	ausap	aupwap	aute
		inclusive	sia	sise	sipwe	sisap	sipwap	site
	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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: 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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣeˈte/

Verb

rete (intransitive)

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) to wait a short while

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 168

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈre.te/
• Rhymes: -ete
• Hyphenation: ré‧te

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rete f (plural reti)

1. net, mesh

   calze e rete ― fishnet stockings

   • c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “La rete e i pesci”, in Favole:

     La rete, che soleva pigliare li pesci, fu presa e portata via dal furor de’ pesci.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. network

   rete elettrica ― electricity grid

3. (television) channel
4. (soccer) goal
5. base (of a bed)

Related terms

• retare
• retata
• retato
• reticella
• reticolo
• retina
• rezza

Anagrams

• erte

Latin

Alternative forms

• rētis (pre-classical)
• rētia, rētium, rēta, rētum (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

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

• Related to Lithuanian rėtis (“sieve”), conceivably from Proto-Indo-European *ret-.
• Alternatively, borrowed from Semitic; compare Hebrew רֶשֶׁת (rešet, “net (for fishing and bird-catching)”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎘𐎚 (rṯt, “net”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.te]

Noun

rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

1. net, snare, network
2. (figuratively) trap
3. (New Latin) The Web; the Internet.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	rēte	rētia
genitive	rētis	rētium
dative	rētī	rētibus
accusative	rēte	rētia
ablative	rēte rētī	rētibus
vocative	rēte	rētia

Derived terms

• interrēte
• irrētiō
• rētiārius (“net-wielding gladiator”)
• rēticulum (“network”)
• rētifex (“net-maker”)

Descendants

• → Albanian: rrjetë
• Aragonese: ret
• Asturian: rede
• Catalan: ret
• Dalmatian: rait
• → English: rete, retiform
• Extremaduran: redi
• Old Francoprovençal: *ré
• Franco-Provençal: ré
• Old French: reiz
  • French: rets
• Friulian: rêt
• Galician: rede
• Istriot: ridi
• Italian: rete, rezza
• Ladin: rei
• Occitan: ret
• Piedmontese: rèj
• Portuguese: rede
• Romanian: rețea
• Romansh: rait, reit, reet
• Sardinian: reta, arretza, rete, retza
• Sicilian: riti, rizza
• Spanish: red
• Venetan: rede
• → Proto-Brythonic: *rruɨd
  • Breton: roued
  • Old Cornish: ruid
    • Cornish: roos
  • Middle Welsh: rwyd
    • Welsh: rhwyd

Further reading

• “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, 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

Paraguayan Guarani

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e

Noun

rete

1. dependent form of tete

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “rete”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 98, column 1

Spanish

Verb

rete

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

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾe.te]

Verb

rete

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of rete

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		torete	forete	mirete
2nd person		norete	nirete
3rd person	masculine	orete	irete yorete (archaic)
	feminine	morete
	neuter	irete

References

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