different between ror vs roe

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German roder, from Old Saxon *r?thar, from Proto-Germanic *r?þr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?r/, [?o???]
• Rhymes: -o???

Noun

ror n (singular definite roret, plural indefinite ror)

1. rudder

Inflection

Verb

ror

1. present of ro

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German roder, from Old Saxon *r?thar, from Proto-Germanic *r?þr?.

Noun

ror n (definite singular roret, indefinite plural ror, definite plural rora or rorene)

1. (nautical, aviation) a rudder
2. (nautical) the helm

Derived terms

• balanseror

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ror

1. present of ro

References

• “ror” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German roder, from Old Saxon *r?thar, from Proto-Germanic *r?þr?.

Noun

ror n (definite singular roret, indefinite plural ror, definite plural rora)

1. (nautical, aviation) a rudder
2. (nautical) the helm

Derived terms

• balanseror

References

• “ror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Rohr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rô?r/
• Hyphenation: ror

Noun

r?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) oven, stove
2. (regional) stovepipe

Declension

References

• “ror” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Verb

ror

1. present tense of ro.

Volapük

Etymology

From English roar

Noun

ror (nominative plural rors)

1. roar

Declension

Related terms

• rorön

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.