different between roc vs roe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: rock, rawk

Etymology 1

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rox).

Alternative forms

• roche
• rok
• ruc
• rukh

Noun

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

Synonyms

• peng (Chinese contexts)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ORC, cor, cor-, orc

Catalan

Etymology

From roca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?r?k/

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

See also

• pedra

Further reading

• “roc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/

Etymology 1

Variant of roche.

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

Related terms

• roche
• rocher

Etymology 2

Old French roc, ultimately from Persian ??? (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit ?? (ratha, “chariot”).

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

Synonyms

• tour

Related terms

• roquer
• rocade

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cor

Interlingua

Noun

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

Declension

Verb

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rocach

References

• "roc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latvian

Verb

roc

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roc

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rukh).

Noun

roc m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Khmer

Verb

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“to withdraw”)

Noun

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“fortnight following full moon”)

Old Saxon

Noun

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /??o?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: row (in some senses only), Roe, Rowe, rho

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugn? (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkula? (“frog spawn”), Russian ???? (krjak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

Noun

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

1. The eggs of fish.
2. The sperm of certain fish.
3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.

Quotations

• 1988: It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. — Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English r?, r?ha, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raih? (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian ?????? (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. Short for roe deer.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

References

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., REO, o'er, ore, öre, øre

Dutch

Etymology

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *r?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru/
• Hyphenation: roe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

roe f or m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

1. Alternative form of roede
2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rooja. Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic rooja (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro

Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• roa

Etymology

From the noun ro

Verb

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative ro)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Spanish

Verb

roe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of roer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of roer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of roer.