adverb
reāpse
reāpse (not comparable)
Classical[reˈaːp.sɛ]Ecclesiastical[reˈap.se]
Meaning
- not comparablein reality; in fact; in practice
Idem istuc ipsa, etsī tū taceās, reāpse experta intellegō.
You don't need to tell me, I know that by my own personal experience.T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus 815Obiciuntur etiam saepe fōrmae, quae reāpse nūllae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.
Apparitions often present themselves, and though they have no real substance, they seem to have it.M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione - modalnot comparableactually; really
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)
- in truth; really.
rēapse, adv. contr. from re and eapse, an old form for ipsā; hence in tmesi: reque eapse, Scip. Afr. ap. Fest. p. 286, 3; cf. ipse init.,
I. in fact, in reality, actually, really (an old word, which does not occur after Cic.):
reapse est re ipsā, Fest. p. 278 Müll.; Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 41: earum ipsarum rerum reapse, non oratione perfectio, Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 2: ut reapse cerneretur, quale esset id, quod, etc., id. ib. 2, 39, 66; cf. Sen. Ep. 108, 32: obiciuntur etiam saepe formae, quae reapse nullae sunt, speciem autem offerunt, Cic. Div. 1, 37, 81: non perinde, ut est reapse, ex litteris perspicere potuisti, id. Fam. 9, 15, 1: quod idem reapse primum est, id. Fin. 5, 10, 27.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
reāpse adv.
re+eāpse (old abl f. of ipse), in fact, in reality, actually, really, in truth : earum rerum reapse, non oratione perfectio: formae, quae reapse nullae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.
Origins
Univerbation of rē + eāpse, an older form of ipsā, later perhaps interpreted as ab + sē. Eventually replaced/renewed by rē ipsā.