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

English

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

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    Borrowed from Latin rete.

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    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.

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    Aragonese

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    From Latin rēte.

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    rete m

    1. net

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    'Are'are

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    rete

    1. be good

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    Asturian

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    rete

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

    Central Malay

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

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

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    rete

    1. (Besemah, Ogan) wealth

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    • 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

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    From Spanish red.

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    rete

    1. net

    Chuukese

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    re- +‎ -te

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    rete

    1. they will never
    2. so they do not
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    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

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    rete

    1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of rijten

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    rete

    1. with a net
    2. clipping of interrete: on the Internet

    Galician

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    rete

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

    Haitian Creole

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    Etymology

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    From French rester.

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    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

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

    Interlingua

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    Borrowed from Italian rete, Portuguese rede, Spanish red and French réseaux, all ultimately from Latin rēte.

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    rete (plural retes)

    1. network (structure of interconnected elements for transit or communication or in a fabric, group of interacting agents)

    Italian

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      From Latin rēte (net).

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      rete f (plural reti)

      1. net, mesh
        calze e retefishnet stockings
      2. network
        rete elettricaelectricity grid
      3. (television) channel
      4. (soccer) goal
      5. base (of a bed)
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      Latin

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      Etymology

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

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      rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

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

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

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      1. 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521

      Further reading

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      • 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

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      • Rhymes: -e

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      rete

      1. dependent form of tete

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      Spanish

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      rete

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

      Ternate

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      rete

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

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      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

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