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Significat (Anglès)

  1. (feminine) head of quadrupedal cattle or game
  2. (Latin-America, feminine) bovine animal

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈres/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

Cognate with Portuguese rês. From Latin rēs (“thing, property”). The etymology Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle) is no longer considered valid. While the latter is a perfect semantic match, the front vowel of the Romance form speaks against an Arabic origin because dialects generally maintain a back -a- in this word (compare Maltese ras, not *ries). For the sense evolution in the former derivation, compare English cattle.

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