different between rore vs frore

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)

1. (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.

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

1. ablative singular of r?s

Maori

Noun

rore

1. rainbow

English

Etymology

From Middle English froren, past participle of fresen (“to freeze”), from Old English fr?osan.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

frore (comparative more frore, superlative most frore)

1. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
   • 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:

     We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,

     Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   • 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:

     For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16

     Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.

   • c. 1916,, Rupert Brooke, Song

     My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

Translations

Verb

frore

1. (archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of freeze
   • c. 1834,, Mary Howitt, The Sea:

     And down below all fretted and frore,
     Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]

Anagrams

• Ferro, ferro-

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• fiore

Etymology

From earlier *flore, from Latin fl?rem, accusative singular of fl?s (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *fl?s (accusative *fl?zem), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?s (“flower, blossom”), derived from the root *b?leh?- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???e/

Noun

frore m (plural frores)

1. flower