different between roke vs rore
roke
English
Alternative forms
- roak, rook, rouk
Etymology
From Middle English roke (“fog, vapour, cloud”), probably from Middle Dutch roke, rooc (“smoke”), from Old Dutch rouc (“steam, vapour”), from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (“smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewg- (“to erupt, vomit, burp”), from *rew- (“to roar, growl, grumble”). Cognate with Scots rok, roik, rouk (“mist, fog, cloud”), Dutch rook (“smoke, fog”), German Rauch (“smoke, fume”), Swedish rök (“smoke, fume, steam, reek”), West Frisian reek, riik (“smoke, fume”). More at reek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
roke (plural rokes)
- (Britain, dialect) Mist; smoke; damp.
- (Britain, dialect, mining) A vein of ore.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Kore, kero, kore, oker
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
roke
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of ruiken
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of rieken
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roken
Anagrams
- oker, roek
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rore
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin r?s, r?ris (“dew, moisture”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rôr, IPA(key): /???/
- (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA(key): /???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?r, IPA(key): /?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: roar
- Homophone: raw (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
rore (uncountable)
- (obsolete) dew
- circa 1600: William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act III, scene V
- Demeas:?Let it bee lawfull for mee (most honorable not onerable paire) awhile to reteyne & deteyne ligate & obligate your eares with my words neither aspersed or inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence, yee are both like in nature, & in nurture alike in Genius & both alike ingenuous. What Timon refuses Callimela refuses, what Callimela wills Timon also wills, soe that Callimela may not bee but Timons Callimela, and Timon but Callimelas Timon.
- circa 1600: William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act III, scene V
Related terms
References
- “†rore, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ro?.re/, [?ro???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ro.re/, [?r????]
Noun
r?re
- ablative singular of r?s
Maori
Noun
rore
- rainbow
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