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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishrowe,rowne,roun,rawne, fromOld English*hrogn(“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), fromProto-Germanic*hrugnaz,*hrugną(“spawn, roe”), fromProto-Indo-European*krek-(“(frog) spawn”).

Cognate withDutchroge(“roe”),German Low GermanRögen(“roe”),GermanRogen(“roe”),Danishrogn,ravn(“roe”),Swedishrom(“roe”),Icelandichrogn(“roe”),Lithuaniankurkulai̇̃(“frog spawn”),Russianкряк(krjak,“frog spawn”).[1]

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Noun

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roe (countable anduncountable,pluralroes)

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  1. Theeggs offish.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst,The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London:Penguin Books,→ISBN,page40:
      It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces ofroe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
    • 2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier)roe feeds 60 percent of the market.
  2. Thesperm of certain fish.
  3. Theovaries of certaincrustaceans.
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Translations
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eggs of fish

See also

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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishro,roa, fromOld Englishrā,rāha, fromProto-West Germanic*raihō, fromProto-Germanic*raihô,*raihą, from*róyko-, fromProto-Indo-European*rey-(“spotted, streaked”).

See alsoSaterland FrisianRäi,Dutchree,GermanReh; alsoIrishriabh(“tripe, streak”),Latvianràibs(“spotted”),Russianрябо́й(rjabój,“mottled fur”).

Noun

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roe (pluralroeorroes)

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  1. Short forroe deer.
    • c.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act III, scene iii:
      And let his foes like flockes of fearefulRoes,
      Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
      That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
    • 1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander 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 boundingroes.
    • 1814, Walter Scott, chapter 12, inWaverley:
      "[...] and we may, God willing, meet with aroe. Theroe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is calledpride 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. Amottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially inmahogany.
Derived terms
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Translations
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roe deer—seeroe deer

References

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

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Shortened form ofroede, with regular loss of-de. FromProto-Germanic*rōdō.

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Noun

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roe f orm (pluralroes,diminutiveroetje n)

  1. Alternative form ofroede
  2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

Estonian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Finnic*rooja. Cognate toFinnishruoja andVoticroojõ(“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

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roe (genitiverooja,partitiverooja)

  1. faeces,excrement

Declension

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Declension ofroe (ÕS type24e/tühi, length gradation)
singularplural
nominativeroeroojad
accusativenom.
gen.rooja
genitiveroojade
partitiveroojarooje
roojasid
illativerooja
roojasse		roojadesse
roojesse
inessiveroojasroojades
roojes
elativeroojastroojadest
roojest
allativeroojaleroojadele
roojele
adessiveroojalroojadel
roojel
ablativeroojaltroojadelt
roojelt
translativeroojaksroojadeks
roojeks
terminativeroojaniroojadeni
essiveroojanaroojadena
abessiveroojataroojadeta
comitativeroojagaroojadega

Galician

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Verb

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roe

  1. inflection ofroer:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Middle French

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Etymology

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Old Frenchroe <Latinrota.

Noun

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roe f (pluralroes)

  1. wheel (cylindrical device)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From the nounro.

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Verb

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roe (imperativero,present tenseroer,passiveroes,simple past and past participleroaorroet,present participleroende)

  1. (often reflexive, withseg) tocalm (ned / down), tosoothe

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the nounro.

Verb

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roe (present tenseroar,past tenseroa,past participleroa,passive infinitiveroast,present participleroande,imperativeroe/ro)

  1. (often reflexive, withseg) tocalm (ned / down), tosoothe

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Old French

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Etymology

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Latinrota.

Noun

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roeoblique singular, f (oblique pluralroes,nominative singularroe,nominative pluralroes)

  1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

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Spanish

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Verb

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roe

  1. inflection ofroer:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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