roe

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: row (in some senses only)

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]

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

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

• 1988: It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. — Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)

• (sperm): milt

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

• caviar
• egg

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-Germanic *raihą (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. Short for roe deer.
   • 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.

• roebuck

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., o'er, ore, öre, øre

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *rōdō.

• Rhymes: -u

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roe f or m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

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

From Proto-Finnic *rooja. Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic rooja (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Old French roe < Latin rota.

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

• French: roue

From the noun ro

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

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• roa

From the noun ro

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative ro/roe)

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

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Latin rota.

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

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

• French: roue

roe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of roer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of roer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of roer.