reu

Borrowed from Latin reus (“accused”). Compare Portuguese réu and Spanish reo.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrɛw]

reu m (plural reus, feminine rea, feminine plural rees)

1. defendant (as in a trial)

reu (feminine rea, masculine plural reus, feminine plural rees)

1. accused, guilty (of a crime)

• “reu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “reu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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

• re u

Clipping of English reunion.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiː²² juː⁵⁵/

re⫽u (verb-object) (rare)

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reunion with friends (typically from university)

reu

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reunion with friends (typically from university)

From Middle Dutch reude, possibly from Proto-Germanic *hruþjô (“large dog, hound”), itself possibly from *hruttōną (“to roar”), from a Proto-Indo-European 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.

• IPA^(key): /røː/

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• Hyphenation: reu
• Rhymes: -øː

reu m (plural reuen or reus, diminutive reutje n, feminine teef)

1. male dog or other canine

   Synonym: rekel

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hruþjan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “reu”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

reu

1. two

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[2], 2005

• IPA^(key): /ˈre.u/

reu

1. (transitive) to carry on the shoulders

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics