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Rebi

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of rebus form-of, hypercorrect, plural, rare

    "We have a letter which begins thus: “I send you herein twenty geographical rebi [we prefer the rebuses. Ed.], two proverbial, twenty enigmas, seven square words.”"

Etymology

Erroneously formed by treating the etymon of rebus, Latin rēbus, as a masculine noun of the second declension, in which, in the nominative case, the singular form ends in -us and the plural form in -i.

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