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English

Alternative forms

• ruefull (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ruful, rewful; equivalent to rue +? -ful.

Adjective

rueful (comparative more rueful, superlative most rueful)

1. Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
2. Inspiring pity or compassion.
3. Bad; woeful; deplorable.

Derived terms

• ruefully
• ruefulness

Related terms

• rue

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• rewe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: roo, roux

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hr?ow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”).

Noun

rue (uncountable)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
2. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.

Derived terms

• rue-bargain
• rueful
• ruefully
• ruefulness
• ruesome
• ruly
• ruth

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hr?owan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwan? (“to sadden; repent”).

Verb

rue (third-person singular simple present rues, present participle ruing or rueing, simple past and past participle rued)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
3. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
4. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
   • Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte

   • 1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley

     which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them

5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year

     Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.

Usage notes

• Often used in the collocation “rue the day”.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhut?).

Noun

rue (plural rues)

1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia:

     There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference.

Derived terms

• common rue, garden rue (Ruta graveolens)
• goat's rue (Galega officinalis)
• rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
• Syrian rue (Peganum harmala)
• wall rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria)

Translations

Further reading

• rue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ure, ERU, EUR, Eur., Ure, eur-, eur., ure

Chuukese

Numeral

rue

1. twenty

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y/

Etymology 1

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin r?ga (“wrinkle”).

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. street, road

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French rue, rude, from Latin r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhut?).

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. rue (the plant)

Etymology 3

From ruer

Verb

rue

1. first-person singular present indicative of ruer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ruer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
5. second-person singular imperative of ruer

Further reading

• “rue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Kabuverdianu

Verb

rue

1. gossip

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

rue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ru?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ruwe, rwe, rewe, reuwe, rew

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ruwe, from Latin r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhut?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riu?(?)/
• Rhymes: -iu?(?)

Noun

rue

1. A kind of plant belonging to the genus Ruta; rue.
2. (rare) meadow-rue (plants in the genus Thalictrum)

Descendants

• English: rue
• Scots: rew

References

• “r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-7.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) road, street

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• ruve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²r???/

Noun

rue f (definite singular rua, indefinite plural ruer, definite plural ruene)

1. a pile, heap
2. a lump of manure, particularly from a cow

Synonyms

• ruke

Further reading

• “rue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• rude

Etymology

From Latin r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhut?).

Noun

rue f (oblique plural rues, nominative singular rue, nominative plural rues)

1. rue (plant)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: rue
  • English: rue
• French: rue

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rue, supplement)
• rue on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Venetian

Noun

rue

1. plural of rua