# re

Pronunciation: say "REE" /ɹiː/

## Preposition

1. Used to introduce the subject of a letter, email, or document; about or regarding.
   - Simple: Used to show what a letter, email, or note is about.
   - _Re: your invoice, the payment has now been processed._
   - _The lawyer filed a brief re the disputed contract._

## Noun

2. In solfège, the syllable representing the second note of a major scale, following 'do'. (pronounced: say "RAY" /ɹeɪ/)
   - Simple: The second note sung in the sol-fa scale, just after 'do'.
   - _The singer slid smoothly from do up to re._
   - _In the warm-up, each student matched their voice to re._
3. Clipping of rematch: a second game against the same opponent, used mainly in online gaming chat. *(slang)* — Clipping of rematch.
   - Simple: Short for rematch: another game against the same opponent.
   - _The two players agreed to a re after the disconnect._
   - _She demanded a re, sure that lag had cost her the win._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Clipping of reinsurance.
- (noun) Clipping of age regressor: a person who slips into a younger, childlike state of mind, often as a way of coping with stress.

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — Latin rēs ("thing, matter, topic") has an ablative form rē, and English borrowed that form.
**Meaning 2** — From Middle English re and Italian re in Guido of Arezzo's system of naming notes. It comes from the first syllable of Latin resonāre ("to resound") in the hymn Ut queant laxis.
**Meaning 3** — Clipped from the start of rematch, reinsurance, or (age) regressor.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/re (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).