Meaning of rēs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. thing, object, stuff
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2. matter, issue, subject, topic
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3. affair, event
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4. story, history
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5. state, republic, commonwealth
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6. novae rēs, meaning a new or different state, etc.: an idiom for a revolution
   declension-5, specifically
7. deed
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8. circumstances
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9. effects, substance, property, possessions
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Equivalents

Examples

“Dīxit duās rēs eī rubōrī fuisse.”

He said that two things had abashed him.

“res repetere”

to demand redress/to seek redress

“hoc tum modo [...] repetitae res”

Then in this manner the redress having been sought

“a. 149 BC, Cato the Elder (attributed quote) Rem tenē, verba sequentur Grasp the matter, the words will follow”

“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.”

“Nam illa nimis antīqua praetereō, quod C. Servīlius Ahāla Sp. Maelium novīs rēbus studentem manū suā occīdit.”

For I pass over those [examples] that are too ancient, namely that Gaius Servilius Ahala killed Spurius Maelius with his own hand because he was aspiring to revolution. (Literally, “to be eager for new things,” but it had the idiomatic sense of “to desire a change in the state of affairs” or, more directly, “to desire revolution.” Sallust, in The Conspiracy of Catiline, uses similar phrasings, and examples of the idiom appear also in Caesar and Livy.)

“res familiaris”

family estate, family heritage

CEFR level