roe
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
- (US) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
- 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, *hrugną (“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 kurkulaĩ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).[1]
Alternative forms
Noun
roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)
- The eggs of fish.
- The sperm of certain fish.
- The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
Quotations
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40:
- It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
Synonyms
- (sperm): milt
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”).
See also Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh; also Irish riabh (“tripe, streak”), Latvian ràibs (“spotted”), Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).
Noun
roe (plural roe or roes)
- Short for roe deer.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
- The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
- 1814, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Waverley:
- "[...] and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. But he will serve to show how my dogs run [...]"
- A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *rōdō.
Pronunciation
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 roojõ (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).
Noun
roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)
Declension
Declension of roe (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | roe | roojad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | rooja | ||
genitive | roojade | ||
partitive | rooja | rooje roojasid | |
illative | rooja roojasse |
roojadesse roojesse | |
inessive | roojas | roojades roojes | |
elative | roojast | roojadest roojest | |
allative | roojale | roojadele roojele | |
adessive | roojal | roojadel roojel | |
ablative | roojalt | roojadelt roojelt | |
translative | roojaks | roojadeks roojeks | |
terminative | roojani | roojadeni | |
essive | roojana | roojadena | |
abessive | roojata | roojadeta | |
comitative | roojaga | roojadega |
Galician
Verb
roe
- inflection of roer:
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)
References
- “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the noun ro.
Verb
roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative roe/ro)
References
- “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Noun
roe oblique singular, f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)
- wheel (cylindrical device)
Descendants
- French: roue
Spanish
Verb
roe
- inflection of roer:
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