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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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roe
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)
- The eggs of fish.
- The sperm of certain fish.
- 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)
- Short for roe deer.
- 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)
- Alternative form of roede
- 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)
- faeces, excrement
Declension
Middle French
Etymology
Old French roe < Latin rota.
Noun
roe f (plural roes)
- 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)
- (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)
- (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)
- wheel (cylindrical device)
Descendants
- French: roue
Spanish
Verb
roe
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of roer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of roer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of roer.
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