Noun: res
Gender: f
Hyphenation: res
| Singular f | res |
| Plural f | reses |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like res
extraterritorialidad,
combatividad,
viscoelasticidad,
pubertad,
hiperexcitabilidad,
urbanidad,
actividad,
salubridad,
retrorreflectividad,
humanidad,
mutagenicidad,
condicionalidad,
hipoactividad,
microuniversidad,
incapacidad,
nicaraguanidad,
cooficialidad,
neoesclavitud,
falsabilidad,
adaptabilidad, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 Spanish res
7. Spanish res
8. Inherited from Old Spanish res, from the nominative of Latin rēs (“thing, property”). Cognate with Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, and Galician res and Portuguese rês.
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', Portuguese Nouns '
rês'.
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