Noun: real
| Singular | real |
| Plural | reals; reales; reis; réis; reais |
Sample Sentences
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There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic." [2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:]
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Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like real
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Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
4. Proto-Italic *reis
5. Classical Latin rēs
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-is
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
9. Proto-Italic *-ālis
10. Latin -ālis
11. Late Latin reālisder.
12. Old French reelbor.
13. Middle English real
14. English real
15. From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis. See: Middle English Nouns '
real', Latin Nouns '
rēs'.