Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#REUCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#REU reus (“accused”). Compare Portuguese réu and Spanish reo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrɛw]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#REU

• Audio (Barcelona):

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  Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#REU

Noun

reu m (plural reus, feminine rea, feminine plural rees)Category:Catalan lemmas#REUCategory:Catalan nouns#REUCategory:Catalan countable nouns#REUCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. defendant (as in a trial)

Adjective

reu (feminine rea, masculine plural reus, feminine plural rees)Category:Catalan lemmas#REUCategory:Catalan adjectives#REUCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. accused, guilty (of a crime)

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “reu”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “reu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “reu”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Alternative forms

• re u

Etymology

ClippingCategory:Cantonese clippings#REU of EnglishCategory:Cantonese terms derived from English#REU reunion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiː²² juː⁵⁵/Category:Cantonese terms with IPA pronunciation#REU

Verb

re⫽u (verb-object)Category:Chinese lemmas#REUCategory:Chinese verbs#REUCategory:Chinese separable verbs#REUCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU (rareCategory:Chinese rare terms#REU)

1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#REU) to reunion with friends (typically from university)

Verb

reuCategory:Chinese lemmas#REUCategory:Chinese verbs#REUCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#REU) to reunion with friends (typically from university)

Etymology

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#REUCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#REU reude, possibly from Proto-GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#REUCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#REU *hruþjô (“large dog, hound”), itself possibly from *hruttōną (“to roar”), from a Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#REU root shared by Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza), Old English hrot. Or, from Proto-Germanic *hreutaną, *hrūtaną, *hruttōną (“to snore”), which would be related to Old Norse hrjóta.

Cognate to German Rüde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /røː/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#REU

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#REU
• Hyphenation: reu
• Rhymes: -øːCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/øː#REUCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/øː/1 syllable#REU

Noun

reu m (plural reuen or reus, diminutive reutje n, feminine teef)Category:Dutch lemmas#REUCategory:Dutch nouns#REUCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#REUCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#REUCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#REUCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. male dog or other canine

   Synonym: rekel

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “hruþjan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “reu”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Numeral

reuCategory:Southwestern Dinka lemmas#REUCategory:Southwestern Dinka numerals#REUCategory:Southwestern Dinka entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. two

References

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈre.u/Category:West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation#REU

Verb

reuCategory:West Makian lemmas#REUCategory:West Makian verbs#REUCategory:West Makian entries with incorrect language header#REUCategory:Pages with entries#REUCategory:Pages with 5 entries#REU

1. (transitiveCategory:West Makian transitive verbs#REU) to carry on the shoulders

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics