roe

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English

Pronunciation

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”).

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Noun

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

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  1. The eggs of fish.
  2. The sperm of certain fish.
  3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
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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)

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  1. Short for roe deer.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: 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.
    • 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 [...]"
  2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Derived terms
Translations
roe deer — see roe deer

References

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

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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)

  1. Alternative form of roede
  2. 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)

  1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Declension of roe (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation)
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

  1. inflection of roer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

  1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

  • French: roue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro.

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Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

  1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

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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)

  1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

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Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe oblique singular, f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

  1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

Spanish

Verb

roe

  1. inflection of roer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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