different between yore vs rore

English

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ?ore, ?are, ?eare, from Old English ?e?ra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *j?r??, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: y?r, IPA^(key): /jo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

1. yore (in a time long ago)
2. (with past participle) for a long time
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

     Ichabbe y-yerned yore.

References

• “y?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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