different between rhea vs rea

English

Etymology 1

From Rhea (“the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”), from Ancient Greek ??? (Rhéa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??/

Noun

rhea (plural rheas)

1. A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America.

Derived terms

• American rhea (Rhea americana)
• common rhea (Rhea americana)
• Darwin's rhea (Rhea pennata)
• greater rhea (Rhea americana)
• lesser rhea (Rhea pennata)
• puna rhea (Rhea tarapacensis)

Translations

References

• Rhea (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rhea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rhea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

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Noun

rhea

1. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.

Anagrams

• Ahre, Hare, Hera, RHAe, Rahe, hare, hear, hera

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