different between groin vs roin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
2. The area adjoining this fold or depression.

   He pulled a muscle in his groin.

3. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
4. (euphemistic) The genitals.

   He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

5. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.

Coordinate terms

• inguinal

Translations

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.

   In the scrum he somehow got groined.

   She groined him and ran to the car.

2. (architecture) To build with groins.
3. (literary) To hollow out, to excavate.

   'Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.' (From Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen).

Etymology 2

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunni?) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunn?n?).

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
     Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.

Etymology 3

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. Alternative spelling of groyne

Anagrams

• Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron

French

Etymology

From Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w??/

Noun

groin m (plural groins)

1. the snout of the pig

Further reading

• “groin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• giron

Middle English

Noun

groin

1. Alternative form of groyn

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

Verb

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To growl; to roar. [15th-17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman roigne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

Noun

roin (plural roins)

1. (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot. [15th-16th c.]

Anagrams

• Iron, Orin, RINO, Rion, inro, inr?, iron, noir, nori

Manx

Pronoun

roin

1. first-person plural of roish

   before us

   • Heeyn yn clane twoaie jeh'n ellan roin. The whole north of the island lay before us.
   • Va'n lhong jeeragh roin. The ship was straight ahead of us.

Derived terms

• roinyn (emphatic)

Volapük

Noun

roin (nominative plural roins)

1. (anatomy) kidney

Declension