roué
See also: roue
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French roué. Doublet of rotate.
Pronunciation
Noun
roué (plural roués)
- A debauched or lecherous person.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- A taste and knowledge of wines and cookery appears to them to be the sign of an accomplished roue and manly gentleman.
- 2005, Richard Brooks and Stuart Wavell, "Rumpole takes a great big spanking", The Sunday Times, August 14, 2005:
- The old roué, twice married and patriarch of an extended family, never concealed the fact that he was “a ladies’ man”.
Synonyms
Translations
A debauched or lecherous person
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Past participle of rouer (“to break upon a wheel; to beat harshly”), from the belief that such individuals deserve such a punishment. Rouer derives from the Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”).
Pronunciation
Noun
roué m (plural roués, feminine rouée)
- roué (debauched or lecherous person)
Participle
roué (feminine rouée, masculine plural roués, feminine plural rouées)
- past participle of rouer
Further reading
- “roué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French roi, from Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).
Noun
roué m (plural roués)
Coordinate terms
- ranne (“queen”)
Related terms
- reyoume (“kingdom”)
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