res

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Concepten

rund

beest

dier

🐾

fauna

Synoniemen

ganado

toro

cabeza

carne

🥩

espiga

organismo

animales

animal

🐾

bovino

bestia

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈres/

Etymologie (Engels)

Cognate with Portuguese rês. Origin contested. From either Latin rēs (“thing, property”) or Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle). While the latter is a perfect semantic match, the front vowel of the Romance form speaks against 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.