rês – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of rês

Noun: rês
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular frês
Plural freses

Sample Sentences

  • Sou como rês desgarrada / Nessa multidão, boiada caminhando a esmo. (I’m like a lost head of cattle / In this crowd, a herd walking aimlessly.) [1975, Gilberto Gil, Dominguinhos, “Lamento Sertanejo”, in Refazenda (LP, K7), performed by Gilberto Gil, CBD Phonogram:]

Nouns inflected like rês

rês,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
4. Proto-Italic *reis
5. Latin rēs
6. Old Galician-Portuguese res
7. Portuguese rês
8. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese res, from the nominative case of Latin rēs (“thing”). Cognate with Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish res.
9. A derivation from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle) is almost unanimously described in dictionaries and represents a perfect semantic match, but it fails on phonetic grounds: 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). See: Latin Nouns 'rēs'.

Verbs referencing "rês"

Galician Nouns res, Spanish Nouns res.

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