roe

See also ROE, and Roe

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA: /rəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /r@U/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA: /roʊ/, X-SAMPA: /roU/

• Audio (US)

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugnan (“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 (kryak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

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

Noun

roe (uncountable)

Wikipedia

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

Quotations

• 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)

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

eggs of fish

• Armenian: ձկնկիթ (hy) (jknkit’)
• Azeri: kürü (az)
• Belarusian: ікра (be) (ikrá) f
• Bulgarian: хайвер (bg) (hajver) m (hajvér)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚子 (cmn), 鱼子 (cmn) (yúzǐ)

• Czech: jikra (cs) f, jikry (cs) pl
• Danish: rogn (da)
• Dutch: kuit (nl) m
• Faroese: rogn (fo) n
• Finnish: mäti (fi)
• French: œufs de poisson (fr) pl, frai (fr) m
• German: Rogen (de) m
• Greek: αυγοτάραχα (el) (avgotáracha)
• Hungarian: ikra (hu)
• Icelandic: hrogn (is) n
• Italian: uova (it)
• Japanese: 卵 (ja) (たまご, tamago)

• Korean: 물고기알 (ko) (mulgogi-al), 곤이 (ko) (鯤鮞, gon-i)
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• Maori: hua (mi), koua (mi), tōhua (mi)
• Norwegian: rogn (no) f
• Old Prussian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: ikra (pl) f
• Portuguese: ovas (pt) f pl
• Romanian: icre (ro) f pl
• Russian: икра (ru) (ikrá) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: икра (sh) f, мрест (sh) m, f

  Roman: ikra (sh) f, mrest (sh) m, f

• Spanish: huevas (es) f pl
• Swedish: rom (sv)
• Turkish: balık yumurtası (tr)
• Ukrainian: ікра (uk) (ikrá) f
• Volapük: fitanögem (vo), (sperm) fitaspärmat (vo)

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

Middle English ro, from Old English rā, fuller rāha, from Proto-Germanic *raihan (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róiko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rei- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian рябой (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

Wikipedia

1. A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus, with short three-pointed antlers, no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Synonyms

• roe deer, chevreuil

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

roe deer — see roe deer

Anagrams

• o'er
• ore, Ore., öre, øre

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Dutch

Etymology

Officially, the -de was replaced by -ê, but the -ê was dropped later. Confer lade to la, Nederlands to Neerlands, chocolade to chocola.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

• Audio

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Noun

roe f, m (plural roes, diminutive roetje)

1. Alternative form of roede.

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

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Spanish

Verb

roe (infinitive roer)

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.