reapse

Latin

Alternative forms

• re apse, reabse, re abse

Etymology

Univerbation of rē +‎ eāpse, older form of ipsā, later perhaps interpreted as ab sē. Eventually replaced/renewed by rē ipsā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈaːp.se/, [reˈäːps̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈap.se/, [reˈäpse]
• Note: the phonemically long vowel of /rē/ regularly undergoes shortening before another vowel.

Adverb

reāpse (not comparable)

1. (archaic) in reality, in actual fact, on practice (as opposed to in imagination)
   • T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus 815:

     Idem istuc ipsa, etsī tū taceās, reāpse experta intellegō.

     You don't need to tell me, I know that by my own personal experience.

   • M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione :

     Obiciuntur etiam saepe fōrmae, quae reāpse nūllae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.

     Apparitions often present themselves, and though they have no real substance, they seem to have it.

   1. (modal) actually, really

Synonyms

• rē ipsā
• rēvērā

Antonyms

• speciē
• faciē

References

• “rēapse” on page 1738 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “reapse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reapse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reapse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)