relais

Borrowed from French relais. See relay (noun).

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈleɪ/

relais (plural relais)

1. (military, historical) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to catch any earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.
   • 1803, Essays on the Theory and Practice of the Art of War:

     if the ground is level, the same person may transport the two cube toises to the distance of 15 toises, which in that case is the length of the relais, which makes him go over 10 leagues per day .

• “relais”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ariels, Lieras, serial, railes, resail, Sal Rei, ariels, Realis, sailer, Isreal, Israël, realis, Alires, Sailer, Israel, serail

• relai (post-1990 spelling)

From Old French relaier (Modern French: relayer).

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.lɛ/

relais m (plural relais)

1. a horse (or team of horses) that transported a rider or coach etc from one staging post to another
2. a hotel that is used as a stop on long journeys
3. (electronics) relay (electromechanical device)
4. (sports) relay race

• passer le relais
• prendre le relais

• “relais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• éliras, Israël, lieras, liséra, relias, sérail, silera

Unadapted borrowing from French relais.

• IPA^(key): /reˈlɛ/^**, /reˈle/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -e

relais m (invariable)

1. (electricity) relay

   Synonym: relè

2. (vacation) a hotel in the countryside with a particularly large garden annexed to it

   Synonym: cascina

• relais in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Israèl, lisare, liserà, rasile, risale, salire, serali

relais

1. second-person plural present indicative of relar