res.
thing; event/affair/business; fact; cause; property; [~ familiaris => property];
Meaning & usage
thing, object, stuff
Dīxit duās rēs eī rubōrī fuisse.
matter, issue, subject, topic
res repetere
a. 149 BC, Cato the Elder (attributed quote) Rem tenē, verba sequentur Grasp the matter, the words will follow
affair, event
story, history
state, republic, commonwealth
c. early 5th century AD, attributed to Ennius by Augustinus in De Civitate Dei; Book II, Chapter XXI Mōribus antīquīs rēs stat Rōmāna virīsque. The Roman state remains by means of its ancient customs and heroes.
27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, Book II, Chapter IX. Adeo valida res tum Clusina erat, magnumque Porsinae nomen. Then so strong was state of Clusium and so great Porsena's name.
novae rēs, meaning a new or different state, etc.: an idiom for a revolution
deed
circumstances
effects, substance, property, possessions
res familiaris
Where this word comes from
For the expected *rīs, remodelled on a new oblique stem *rēj-, from Proto-Italic *reis, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Cognate to Old Persian [Term?] (/rāy-/, “paradise, wealth”), Avestan 𐬭𐬁𐬫- (rāy-, “paradise, wealth”), Northern Kurdish raye (“power, authority, office, state”), Sanskrit रै (rái, “property, wealth”), रयि (rayí, “stuff, material, property, goods”).
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