rue

rue

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Carpathian Rusyn.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Carpathian Rusyn terms

• rewe (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɹuː/, /ɹɪu̯/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: roo, roux

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”). Compare German reuen (“to regret, to repent”) and Dutch berouwen (“to regret, to repent”). Also compare with related Russian сокруша́ться (sokrušátʹsja, “to be distressed, to grieve (for, over)”), Russian круши́ть (krušítʹ, “to destroy, to shatter”).

rue (uncountable)

2. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.

   Synonyms: contrition, misery, unhappiness; see also Thesaurus:sadness, Thesaurus:remorse

   • 1896, A E Housman, “ XIII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 21:

     When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again,
     "The heart out of the bosom was never given in vain;
     'Tis paid with sighs aplenty and sold for endless rue."
     And I am two-and-twenty, and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

3. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.

   Synonyms: ruth, sympathy; see also Thesaurus:compassion

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

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

1. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.

   Synonyms: afterthink, deprecate, regret

   to rue the day

   I rued the day I crossed paths with her.

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:

     I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC:

     Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.

   • 2009, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race:

     And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.

   • 2012, Joy Fielding, Still Life:

     And was the fact she was no longer losing large chunks of time something to be celebrated or something to be rued?

   • 2014, Gary Meehan, True Fire:

     “If we get in a fight, you'll be ruing your lack of training.”

   • 2024 December 16, Libby Brooks, “Nicola Sturgeon rues descent into ‘toxic’ debate on topics such as equal marriage”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Nicola Sturgeon rues descent into ‘toxic’ debate on topics such as equal marriage

3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.

   Synonyms: forthink, put the fear of God into, think over

4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.

   Synonyms: deject, depress; see also Thesaurus:sadden

5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.

   Synonyms: commiserate, compassionate, feel sorry for, mercify; see also Thesaurus:pity

   • 1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley

     which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them

6. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.

   Synonyms: grieve, mourn; see also Thesaurus:be sad

   • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC:

     Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

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, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     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.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

     The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of 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)
• wild rue
• wild Syrian rue

• rue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

rue

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /ʁy/

• Audio; “une rue”:

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Inherited from Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin ruga.

rue f (plural rues)

1. street, road

Inherited from Old French rue, rude, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

rue f (plural rues)

1. rue (the plant)

From ruer.

rue

1. inflection of ruer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

rue

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ruar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

rue

1. gossip

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

rue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ruō

IPA^(key):

rue

1. neck

• Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

• ruwe, rwe, rewe, reuwe, rew

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈriu̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -iu̯(ə)

rue

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

• English: rue
• Scots: rew

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

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

• Audio (Jersey):

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rue f (plural rues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) road, street
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 520:

     I' n'y a pas de rue sàns but.

     There is no road but has an ending.

• ruve
• ruv (dialectal, Trøndelag)

Compare Swedish ruva

• IPA^(key): /²rʉːə/

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

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

• ruke
• rus (dialectal)

• “rue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• rude

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

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

1. rue (plant)

• 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

rue

1. inflection of ruar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

rue

1. plural of rua