different between rore vs rory

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.i/

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s / r?ris (“dew”).

Adjective

rory (comparative more rory, superlative most rory)

1. (obsolete) Covered by dew.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, i, 14

     On Libanon at first his foot he set,
     And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet.

   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 3

     [...] rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.

Synonyms

• (covered by dew): dewy, rorid; see also Thesaurus:bedewed

Related terms

• rore
• rorid

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Adjective

rory (comparative more rory, superlative most rory)

1. (obsolete) Of gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colors.

Related terms

• rory-cum-tory
• rory-tory
• tory-rory

Translations