- What is the meaning of the Latin word rebus?
- What is the origin of the word rebus?
- What is the plural of rebus?
What is the meaning of the Latin word rebus?
For example, a picture of a can of tomatoes followed by the letters UC and a picture of a well means "Can you see well?" In Latin, the word rebus means "by things"; rebus is a form of the Latin word res, which means "thing." English speakers started using the word rebus for picture writing in the early 1600s.
What is the origin of the word rebus?
From French rébus (“rebus (puzzle); ambiguity; word used in an oblique sense; unintelligible remark”), or directly from its probable etymon Latin rēbus, the ablative plural of rēs (“object, stuff, thing; issue, matter, subject, topic”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“goods; wealth”).
What is the plural of rebus?
noun. plural rebuses. Britannica Dictionary definition of REBUS. [count] : a riddle or puzzle made up of letters, pictures, or symbols whose names sound like the parts or syllables of a word or phrase.