rebus

From French rébus, from Latin rebus (ablative plural of res (“thing”)), taken either from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur "concerning the things that are taking place", used in sixteenth-century Picardie as the name for satirical pieces containing picture-riddles, or from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rēbus meaning "not by words but by things".

• enPR: rē'bəs, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbəs/
• Rhymes: -iːbəs

rebus (plural rebuses)

1. A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
2. (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.

• (word puzzle): dingbat

rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses, present participle rebusing, simple past and past participle rebused)

1. (transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
   • Fuller

     He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

• Wikipedia article on the rebus

• Burse, Suber, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, resub, rubes, suber, urbes

French rébus, from Latin rebus.

rebus

1. rebus.

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

rebus c (singular definite rebussen, plural indefinite rebusser)

1. rebus (puzzle)

rebus

1. first-person singular past historic of reboire
2. second-person singular past historic of reboire

rebus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of reboire

• beurs

rebus m (invariable)

1. rebus
2. enigma
3. puzzle
4. conundrum

rēbus

1. dative plural of rēs
2. ablative plural of rēs

• rebus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

rebus

1. boiled (food)

rebus (used in the form merebus)

1. to boil (food)

From French rébus, from Latin rebus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.bus/

rebus m inan

1. rebus

• (adjective) rebusowy

• rebus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /rěːbus/
• Hyphenation: re‧bus

rébus m (Cyrillic spelling ре́бус)

1. rebus

rebus c

1. a rebus; a kind of word puzzle

• bildgåta

• rebuslösning

• Rebus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)