rue

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Usage notes 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Synonyms 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.5 References 1.6 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Noun 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ru:/

  Rhymes: -uː

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English hrēow, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouw, German Reue; related to Etymology 2, below.

[edit] Noun

rue (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Repentance, regret.
2. (archaic) Pity, compassion.

[edit] Etymology 2

Old English hrēowan, perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“‘to distress, grieve’”)^[1], from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

[edit] Verb

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

1. (obsolete) (transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
2. (obsolete) (transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
3. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.

   I rued the day I crossed paths with her.

4. (archaic) (intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
   • Late C14: Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

[edit] Usage notes

Most frequently used in the collocation “rue the day”.

[edit] Etymology 3

Wikipedia

From Old French rue (retained in Modern French rue), from Latin ruta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rute).

[edit] Noun

rue (plural rues)

1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used in medicines.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• garden rue
• herb of grace

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ “rue” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of eru
• eur.
• ure

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁy/, SAMPA: /Ry/

[edit] Etymology 1

Latin ruga.

[edit] Noun

rue f. (plural rues)

1. street, road

[edit] Etymology 2

Latin ruta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rute).

[edit] Noun

rue f. (plural rues)

1. rue (the plant):