- Clipping of residential. Term has not been heard as a noun for a shortened form of "residence."
res
adjective; clipping
Of or relating to a place where people live.
Etymology : res, clipped from residential, which is from French resider which is from Latin re "back" and sedere "sit", and –ence, from French ence "forming abstract nouns", and –al, from Latin -alem "relating to".
Source : “I try to tell my friends about the res colleges here at Rice, but they don’t understand.” Discussion at Sid Richardson college about people back home November 2008
Last modified: 3 December 2008