different between reaf vs rea

English

Noun

reaf (plural reafs)

1. Obsolete spelling of reef
   • 1834 August 2, Niles' Register, page 384:

     A large number of vessels continued to be wrecked, and a vast amount of property is lost on the Florida reafs.

   • 1891, H. A. Moriarty, Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, Westward of Longitude 80° east, including Madagascar, page 124:

     The largest ships may pass between the outer reafs and the Black rocks.

Anagrams

• FERA, Fear, Fera, Rafe, fare, fear

Middle English

Noun

reaf

1. Alternative form of reif

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ræ???f/

Noun

r?af m or n

1. plunder, spoil, booty
2. raiment, garment, robe, vestment
3. armor

Derived terms

• r?afl?c (“robbery”)

Related terms

• r?afian

Descendants

• Middle English: ræf, raf, ref, reif
  • English: reif
  • Scots: reif

English

Noun

rea (plural reas)

1. Alternative form of rei

Anagrams

• 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, ERA, Rae, aer-, are, aër-, ear, era

Estonian

Noun

rea

1. genitive singular of rida

Italian

Adjective

rea

1. feminine singular of reo

Anagrams

• are
• era, Era

Latin

Etymology

See reus (“accused, guilty”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.a/, [?reä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.a/, [?r???]

Noun

rea f (genitive reae); first declension

1. defendant, accused
2. (archaic) plaintiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun

rea f

1. vocative singular of rea
2. ablative singular of rea

References

• rea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish reithe (“ram”).

Noun

rea m (genitive singular rea, plural reaghyn)

1. male sheep, ram, tup

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish réid (“level, smooth”), from Proto-Celtic *r?di, from Proto-Indo-European *h?réh?-d?i, from *h?réh? (“sparsely, rarely, loosely”).

Adjective

rea

1. even, flat, level
2. smooth, sleek
3. horizontal
4. plain, facile
5. clear (as water)
6. steady, easy of manner
7. regular, continuous

Derived terms

• neurea (“lumpy, rough, scraggy; entangled; uneven”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?a]

Adjective

rea

1. nominative feminine singular of r?u
2. accusative feminine singular of r?u

Spanish

Noun

rea f (plural reas, masculine reo, masculine plural reos)

1. female equivalent of reo

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

rea (n class, plural rea)

1. Alternative form of ree

See also

Swedish

Etymology

See realisation

Noun

rea c

1. a sale (sale of goods at reduced prices); short for realisation

Declension

Related terms

• bokrea
• reapris
• slutrea

See also

• reaplan

Verb

rea (present rear, preterite reade, supine reat, imperative rea)

1. to sell out at reduced prices (at a sale); short for realisera

Conjugation

Anagrams

• -are, -era, era