reapse

Latin

Etymology

From rē + eāpse, old form of (eā) ipsā.

Adverb

reāpse (not comparable)

  1. in fact, actually, really
    • T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus :
      Idem istuc ipsa reapse experta intellego.
      Actually, I myself know this full well
      M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione :
      Obiciuntur saepe formae, quae reapse nullae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.
      Apparitions present themselves often as having substance while, in fact, they do not.

References
  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)
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