Clipping ofEnglish Ru synCarpathian Rusyn руси́н ( rusýn ) , fromOld East Slavic Русь ( Rusĭ ) withe
rue
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code forCarpathian Rusyn . FromMiddle English rewe reowe Old English hrēow ( “ sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *hreuwu ( “ pain, sadness, regret, repentance ” ) . Cognates includeGerman reuen ( “ to regret, to repent ” ) andDutch berouwen ( “ to regret, to repent ” ) .
Probably ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *krows- Russian круши́ть ( krušítʹ ,“ to destroy, to shatter ” ) ,Russian сокруша́ться ( sokrušátʹsja ,“ to be distressed, to grieve (for, over) ” ) . Also compare Czechtruchlit *truxlъ
rue (uncountable
( archaic or dialectal ) Sorrow ;repentance ;regret .Synonyms: contrition misery unhappiness see also Thesaurus:sadness ,Thesaurus:remorse 1896 A[lfred] E[dward] Housman , “[Poem]XIII ”, inA Shropshire Lad John Lane Company ,The Bodley Head , published1906 ,→OCLC page21 :When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again,rue ."
( archaic or dialectal ) Pity ;compassion .Synonyms: ruth sympathy see also Thesaurus:compassion FromMiddle English rewen ruwen ruen reowen Old English hrēowan ( “ to rue; make sorry; grieve ” ) , perhaps influenced byOld Norse hryggja ( “ to distress, grieve ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *hrewwaną ( “ to sadden; repent ” ) .
rue (third-person singular simple present rues present participle ruing or rueing simple past and past participle rued
( transitive ) repent of orregret (some past action or event); towish that a past action or event had not taken place.Synonyms: afterthink deprecate regret repent torue the day Irued the day I crossed paths with her.
1614–1615 Homer , “(please specify the book number) ”, inGeo[rge] Chapman , transl.,Homer’s Odysses. [ … ] [ … ] Rich[ ard] Field [andWilliam Jaggard ], forNathaniell Butter , published1615 ,→OCLC The Odysseys of Homer, [ … ] , volume(please specify the book number) , London:John Russell Smith , [ … ] 1857 ,→OCLC I wept to see, andrued it from my heart. The spelling has been modernized. 2009 David Theo Goldberg ,The Threat of Race :And feminization of the homeland is something to berued , 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 berued ?
2014 True Fire :“If we get in a fight, you'll beruing your lack of training.”
2024 December 16, Libby Brooks, “Nicola Sturgeon rues descent into ‘toxic’ debate on topics such as equal marriage”, inThe Guardian [1] →ISSN Nicola Sturgeonrues descent into ‘toxic’ debate on topics such as equal marriage [title]
( obsolete , transitive ) repent of sin or regret some past action.Synonyms: forthink put the fear of God into think over ( obsolete , transitive ) sorrow orpity .Synonyms: deject depress see also Thesaurus:sadden ( archaic or obsolete , intransitive , often withon orupon ) compassion orpity ; to take pity (on), to have compassion (on).Synonyms: commiserate compassionate feel sorry for mercify see also Thesaurus:pity 1724 Mr. Rutherfoord's Letters, now divided in three parts ... The fifth edition , page316 :[ …] rue upon the earth, and send down a watring of rain: Truly , I think Christ's misty dew a welcome message from heaven, till my Lord's rain fall : [ …]
1842 , Nicholas Ridley,The Life of Nicholas Ridley which stirred men's hearts torue upon them 1852 Poetical works (Fair Eliza) , page38 :Rue on thy despairing lover! Canst thou break his faithfu' heart?
( archaic , intransitive ) sorrow orregret .Synonyms: grieve mourn see also Thesaurus:be sad to repent or regret a past action or event
Rue (plant) FromMiddle English rue Anglo-Norman ruwe Old French rue Latin rūta Ancient Greek ῥυτή ( rhutḗ ) .
rue (countable anduncountable plural rues
Any of variousperennial shrubs of the genusRuta Ruta graveolens common rue ), formerly used in medicines.1590 Edmund Spenser , “Book III, Canto II”, inThe Faerie Queene. [ … ] [ … ] [John Wolfe ] forWilliam Ponsonbie ,→OCLC But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gatheredRew , and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
c. 1599–1602 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene v] :Ophelia :rue for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear yourrue with a difference.1940 Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens , The Macmillan Company, page253 :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[.]
1961 Harry E. Wedeck ,Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs , New York: The Citadel Press, page211 :Like the water lily, endive, and lettuce,rue was believed to have anti-aphrodisiac properties.
any of various perennial shrubs of the genusRuta
Arabic:سُذَاب m ( suḏāb ) ,فَيْجَن m ( fayjan ) ,حَزَاء m ( ḥazāʔ ) ( obsolete already by 1000CE ) Aramaic:Classical Syriac:ܦܝܓܢܐ m ( peygānā ) ,ܣܕܒ m ( /*səḏāḇ/ ) Jewish Aramaic:פיגנא m ( peygānā ) , Armenian:փեգենա (hy) ( pʻegena ) ,սատապ (hy) ( satap ) ,սպանդ (hy) ( spand ) Belarusian:ру́та f ( rúta ) Bulgarian:седефче n ( sedefče ) Catalan:ruda f Czech:routa (cs) f Dalmatian:roita f Danish:rude (da) Dutch:ruit (nl) f Esperanto:ruto Estonian:ruud Finnish:ruuta (fi) French:rue (fr) f Friulian:rude f Galician:ruda (gl) f ruda cabreira f Georgian:Old Georgian:ტეგანი ( ṭegani ) German:Raute (de) Greek:απήγανος (el) m ( apíganos ) Ancient:πήγανον n ( pḗganon ) ,ῥυτή f ( rhutḗ ) Hebrew:פְּיגָם (he) Hungarian:ruta (hu) Icelandic:rúturunni Italian:ruta (it) f Japanese:ヘンルーダ (ja) ( henrūda ) ,芸香 ( うんこう, unkō ) Latin:ruta Lithuanian:rūta f Norwegian:vinrute Persian:سداب (fa) ( sodâb ) Polish:ruta (pl) f Portuguese:arruda (pt) f Romanian:virnanț (ro) m rută (ro) f Russian:ру́та (ru) f ( rúta ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:рутвица f Latin:rutvica (sh) f Spanish:ruda (es) f Swedish:ruta (sv) Tagalog:ruda dora Turkish:sedef otu Ukrainian:ру́та f ( rúta ) Venetan:ruda f rua f Volapük:rutadaplan
rue
twenty Inherited fromOld French rue Latin ruga
La Rue de la Rue (Suèvres, Centre-Val de Loire, France) rue f plural rues
street ,road Inherited fromOld French rue rude Latin rūta Ancient Greek ῥυτή ( rhutḗ ) .
rue f plural rues
rue ( the plant ) Fromruer
rue
inflection ofruer first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive second-person singular imperative rue
( reintegrationist norm) ruar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative rue
gossip Gonçalves, Manuel (2015 ),Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary ,→ISBN rue
second-person singular present active imperative ofruō rue
neck Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022 ), “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, inIndiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures [2] Borrowed fromAnglo-Norman rue Latin rūta Ancient Greek ῥυτή ( rhutḗ ) .
rue
A kind of plant belonging to the genusRuta rue ( rare ) ( plants in the genusThalictrum ) FromOld French rue Latin ruga ( “ wrinkle ” ) .
rue f plural rues
( Jersey , Guernsey ) road ,street 1903 Guernsey Folk Lore [3] 520 :I' n'y a pas derue sàns but. There is noroad but has an ending. CompareSwedish ruva
rue f definite singular rua indefinite plural ruer definite plural ruene
apile ,heap a lump ofmanure , particularly from a cow “rue” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromLatin rūta Ancient Greek ῥυτή ( rhutḗ ) .
rue oblique singular , f oblique plural rues nominative singular rue nominative plural rues
rue rue
inflection ofruar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative rue
plural ofrua 
