Reds

reds rēds English Etymology In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of en la russatus russātī Reddish-Brown-Clads or la factio la russata the reddish-brown-clad faction and en gkm Ῥούσιοι Reds. Noun en noun form en Red Proper noun p en informal politics en Communist Party in various contexts. en informal sports Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly en historical The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red. 2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38: Edward Gibbon Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red. en baseball Cincinnati Reds. en soccer Liverpool FC. Coordinate terms Roman charioteering factions en Blues, en Greens, en Whites; en Golds, en Purples rare Derived terms en COYR Anagrams en ders EDRs DREs ERDs SERD RDEs ESRD Ders der's en terms calqued from Latin terms calqued from Medieval Greek en Ancient Rome Byzantine Empire Sports nicknames Political parties Communism