ren

rēn, rēnis, m., only in plur. renes, q. v.

rēn, rēnis, m. (ῥέω), die Niere, nur im Plur. renes, die Nieren, I) eig., Cic. u.a.: laborare ex renibus, Nierenschmerzen haben, Cic. – II) meton., die Lenden, Nemes. cyn. 112. – ➳ a) Nbf. rien = ren, Plaut. fr. bei Fest. 277 (a), 15, wovon auch Plur. rienes, Chalcid. Tim. 37. – b) Genet. Plur. renum u. renium. Vgl. Georges Lexik. d. lat. Wortf. S. 595.

ren [CL usu. in pl. only], rien 1 (anat.) kidney; b (understood as seat of feelings, affections, or emotions); c (w. ref. to Sap. i 6). cauculus, dolor renium GlC C 58; hic rien [v. l. rigen] oððe ren, þes lundlaga Ælf. Gram. 41; cum ‥ superfluitas potus ad renes descendens confluat Adel. QN 10; item ab ‥ rivus ‥ pluraliter hi renes quia ab eis rivi cenosi humoris dirivantur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 499; transit ‥ ad renes aquositas et ibi separatur et formatur urina; a renibus vero vadit ad vesicam Ric. Med. Anat. 226; hec insula [sc. in mari occidentali Hibernie] dicta Arann, id est ren in Latino, quia ad similitudinem renis in animali se habet (Endeus 10) VSH II 64; hic ren, -nis, vel rien ‥ reins Gl. AN Ox. 61; ren, renis, vel rien, rienis, nefren et areffren idem Alph. 156; s1423 ren quia pingue sapit archilevita capit (Vers.) Amund. I 75; hoc ren, A. nere ‥ hoc ren, -is, a nere, ‥ hic ren, -nis, A. the nerys WW; corpus sunt infra cor, fel, splen, ren [ME: kedney], diafragma (Vers.) WW.  b peccavi in medullis et in renis [sic] Nunnam. 84; in corpore cupiditatis; hec autem est in renibus Bern. Comm. Aen. 16; in renibus quippe delectatio consistit Neckam NR II 160 p. 266.  c ut mihi renum scrutator testis est Dominus Gildas EB 1; p675 ut mihi scrutator cordis et renum testis est Aldh. Ep. 4 p. 480; tu enim ‘scrutans corda et renes Deus’ Anselm (Or. 19) III 73; ei qui cordis renumque scrutator est supplicare deliberavit V. Chris. Marky. 77. 2 (by synecdoche) area of body near or around the kidneys, loin, flank, rein; b (w. accingere or sim.). rien, laendino GlC R 178; clunis, renibus, coxe, gupan GlH C 1142 (cf. Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 142: clunes, renes vel coxe); renes, vel lumbi, lendenu vel hypeban Ælf. Gl. 159; si cum musco distemperato cum vino inungantur †tenes [l. renes] et virilia, excitatur coitus potenter Gilb. VII 287. 1; atramentarium scriptoris gestabat in renibus [cf. Ezech. ix 2: atramentum scriptoris ad renes ejus] R. Bury Phil. 6. 98; doceatur novicius regulariter incedere, non citato gressu, non dissolutis renibus Cust. Eynsham 24.  b renes accincti filii Israel comedunt carnes agni paschalis cum lactucis agrestibus Ad. Dore Pictor 160; a succinctis renes tenentibus baculos in manibus Gir. GE I 50 p. 141; quilibet ‥ habebat ‥ gladium aureis scapulis renibus accinctum M. Par. Maj. I 514. 3 (in gl., understood as): a crop (of bird). b small pig. a rien, crop Ælf. Gl. 160.  b hi renes ‥ inde ‥ hic [ed. Mai: hoc] rien, -enis ‥ porcellus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 499 (cf. ib. 506); 11‥ rien, -nis, i. porcel Teaching Latin I 382.

rēn, rēnis, m. , inus., v. renes.

(rēn) see renes.