rout
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹaʊt/
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English routen, ruten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hrūtan (“to make a noise, whiz, snore”), also rēotan, *hrēotan (“to make a noise, make a noise in grief, weep, mourn, lament, wail, shed tears”), both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to snore, snort”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”). Cognate with Middle Dutch ruyten (“to make a noise, chatter, chirp”), Middle High German rūzen, rūssen (“to make a noise, rattle, buzz, snore”), Icelandic rjóta, hrjóta (“to roar, rattle, snore”). Related also to Swedish ryta (“to roar, bellow, shout”), Icelandic rauta (“to roar”).
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
- (intransitive) To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
- (intransitive) To snore; snore loudly.
- Chaucer, The Reve's Tale
- "Men might hir routing heren a furlong."
- Chaucer, The Reve's Tale
- (intransitive) To belch.
- (intransitive) To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
Derived terms
- root (cheer)
Noun
rout (plural routs)
- A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
- 1759-1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
- 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, Poems, A Walk in a Churchyard
- "My child, it is not well," I said, / "Among the graves to shout; / To laugh and play among the dead, / And make this noisy rout."
- 1759-1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Snoring.
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ruten (“to rush, dart, dash, beat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hrjóta (“to jump down, fall out, plunge, hurl, burst forth, rebound, fly, be flung”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hreutaną (“to plunge, rush, hurl, shatter, fall, break”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (“to fall, plunge, rush, topple”). Cognate with Middle High German rûzen (“to move quickly, storm”). Related also to Old English hrēosan (“to fall, sink, fall down, go to ruin, rush, rush upon, attack”). More at rush.
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
Derived terms
Noun
rout (plural routs)
- (now chiefly dialectal) A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
Etymology 3
1598, "disorderly retreat," borrowed from Middle French route, roupte (“disorderly flight of troops”), literally "a breaking off, rupture," from Vulgar Latin rupta (“a dispersed group”), literally "a broken group," from Latin rupta, feminine past participle of rumpo (“to break”) (see rupture). The verb is from 1600.
Noun
rout (plural routs)
- A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
- Spenser
- A rout of people there assembled were.
- Spenser
- A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
- Spenser
- the endless routs of wretched thralls
- Shakespeare
- the ringleader and head of all this rout
- Milton
- Nor do I name of men the common rout.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded / With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, / And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;
- 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
- […] although there must have been nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout.
- Spenser
- The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion, especially when retreating from a fight.
- The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
- The rout of the enemy was complete.
- 2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
- It was only the outstanding Cech that stood between Arsenal and a second-half rout as Spurs simply swamped their opponents after the break with a formidable display of power, pace and sheer intensity.
- Daniel
- Thy army […] / Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly.
- Alexander Pope
- To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.
- (law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)
- A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Vol. I, "Southey and Porson":
- The ancients have always been opposed to them; just as, at routs and dances, elderly beauties to younger.
- 1832, "The Premier and his Wife: A Story of the Great World," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XXXI. No. CLXXXIX (January 1832):
- The envoys were not often compelled to forego the toilet for the desk, nor the beaux secretaires, to give up their lessons on the guitar for the drudgery of copying dispatches. A “protocol” would have scared the gentle state from its propriety; and the arrival of the Morning Post, once a week from London, with the account of routs in which they had not shared, and the anticipation of dinners and déjeúnés which they were never to enjoy, was the only pain which Diplomacy suffered to raise a ripple on the tranquil surface of its soul.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 23:
- By a little inquiry regarding his mother's engagements, he was pretty soon able to find out by whom of her ladyship's friends parties were given at that season; where he would be likely to meet Osborne's sisters; and, though he had that abhorrence of routs and evening parties which many sensible men, alas! entertain, he soon found one where the Misses Osborne were to be present.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Vol. I, "Southey and Porson":
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Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
- (transitive) To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
- Clarendon
- That party […] that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled.
- 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, "Mitchell warns of setbacks ahead in Mideast talks" (news article), Reuters:
- Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007.
- Clarendon
- (intransitive) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
- 2005, Brian Todd Carey, Joshua Allfree, John Cairns, Warfare in the Ancient World, Pen and Sword, →ISBN.
- The Ra division broke in panic and fled up against the just-arriving Amon division, which as a result began to rout as well.
- 2005, Brian Todd Carey, Joshua Allfree, John Cairns, Warfare in the Ancient World, Pen and Sword, →ISBN.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
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Etymology 4
Alteration of root.
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
- To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edwards to this entry?)
- To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
- To use a router in woodworking.
See also
Wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 5
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Icelandic hrota, according to Chambers 1908”)
Noun
rout (plural routs)
- The brent goose.
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
Adjective
rout
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German rōt, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *raudaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rout (masculine rouden, neuter rout, comparative méi rout, superlative am routsten)
Declension
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See also
wäiss | gro | schwaarz |
rout | orange; brong | giel |
gréng | ||
turquoise | blo (hellblo, himmelblo) | blo (donkelblo) |
violett; indigo | magenta; mof | rosa; pink |
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