• re apse,reabse,re abse

Univerbation ofrē +‎eāpse, older form ofipsā, later perhaps interpreted asabsē. Eventually replaced/renewed byrē ipsā.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/reˈaːp.se/,[reˈäːps̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/reˈap.se/,[reˈäpse]
• Note: the phonemically long vowel of /rē/ regularly undergoes shortening before another vowel.

reāpse (notcomparable)

1. (archaic) inreality, inactualfact, inpractice(as opposed to in imagination)
   • T. Maccius Plautus,Truculentus 815:

     Idem istuc ipsa, etsī tū taceās,reāpse experta intellegō.

     You don't need to tell me, I know thatby my own personal experience.

   • M. Tullius Cicero,De Divinatione :

     Obiciuntur etiam saepe fōrmae, quaereāpse nūllae sunt, speciem autem offerunt.

     Apparitions often present themselves, and though they have noreal substance, they seem to have it.

   1. (modal)actually,really

• rē ipsā
• rēvērā

• speciē
• faciē

• “rēapse” on page 1738 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• “reapse”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reapse”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reapse inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • in truth; really:re (vera), reapse (opp.specie)