Latin Lesson #239: Sayings re: res

The focus for today's lesson is one of the most common 5th-declension nouns: res , which means "thing, matter, affair, business," etc. You get the idea: it has a lot of meanings! You probably have used this Latin word without knowing it, because every time you type "re:" in a memo, you are saying re , the ablative form of res : "in the matter of." Many people think the "re" is short for…