different between roan vs gelding

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?n, IPA^(key): /???n/
• (US) enPR: r?n, IPA^(key): /?o?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic ???????????????????????? (raudan), accusative of ???????????????????? (rauþs, “red”).

Adjective

roan (not comparable)

1. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
2. Made of the leather called roan.

   roan binding

Translations

Noun

roan (plural roans)

1. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
2. The color of such an animal.
3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
   • 1882, Leo de Colange, The American Encyclopaedia of Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial Law, and Finance (volume 2)

     Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roan (plural roans)

1. Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”).

Anagrams

• Arno, Aron, NRAO, Nora, Oran, Rona, rona

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roan/, [?ro.ãn]

Verb

roan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of roer.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of roer.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of roer.

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +? -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ld??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +? -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?lti?k/
• Rhymes: -?lti?k

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)