revele

Revele is a term that can appear primarily as an unaccented transcription of the French verb révéler, meaning “to reveal.” In standard French orthography, the infinitive is written as révéler and the present tense third-person singular is révèle. The unaccented form revele may be encountered in contexts where diacritics are omitted, such as computer programming, data processing, search indexing, or texts produced by optical character recognition. It is not considered correct for formal French writing, but it can occur in user-generated content, filenames, or code that prohibits accented characters.

Etymology and related forms: The French verb rév é ler comes from Latin revelare, meaning to uncover or disclose. Related terms include révélation (revelation) and révélateur (a device or person that reveals or uncovers). These forms are used in standard written French with diacritics and carry precise pronunciation and meaning.

Usage considerations: When encountered in plain-text or multilingual contexts, revele is typically treated as a nonstandard or nonaccented variant of révéler. In formal writing, the accented spellings should be preferred. In non-linguistic contexts, such as branding or domain names, Revele may be used as a stylized proper noun and capitalized accordingly.

See also: révéler, révélation, révélateur. In discussions about typography and encoding, it may also arise in the study of diacritics, ASCII-fied text, and text normalization.