rue

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See also: Rue, rué, rûe, ru'e, rue-, and rü

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwō (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew-, *krow-, *krows- (“to push, fall, beat, break”). Cognate with Scots rew (“rue”), West Frisian rouw (“sadness”), Dutch rouw (“mourning, sadness”), German Reue (“repentance, regret, remorse, contrition”), Lithuanian krùšti (“to smash, crash, bruise”), Russian крушить (krušitʹ, “crush”).

Noun

rue (uncountable)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
  2. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hrēowan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”). Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

Verb

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4:
      Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.
    • 2009, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race:
      And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.
    • 2009, Erica James, It's The Little Things:
      As far as they were concerned, he must be ruing the day he ever met Sally.
    • 2012, Joy Fielding, Still Life:
      And was the fact she was no longer losing large chunks of time something to be celebrated or something to be rued?
    • 2014, Gary Meehan, True Fire:
      “If we get in a fight, you'll be ruing your lack of training.”
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
    • Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
      Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
    • (Can we date this quote by Ridley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
    • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
Usage notes
  • Often used in the collocation “rue the day”.
Translations

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Rue (plant)

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue (> modern French rue), from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ). Compare rude.

Noun

rue (plural rues)

  1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
    • 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • common rue (Ruta graveolens)
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Translations

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “rue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Chuukese

Numeral

rue

  1. twenty

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁy/
  • audio (une rue):(file)

Etymology 1

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“to become encrusted”), extension of *krew- (“scab”)

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

  1. street, road

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French rue, rude, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

  1. rue (the plant)

Etymology 3

From ruer

Verb

rue

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ruer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of ruer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
  5. second-person singular imperative of ruer

Further reading

Kabuverdianu

Verb

rue

  1. gossip

References

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rue

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ruō

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ruwe, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Pronunciation

Noun

rue

  1. A kind of plant belonging to the genus Ruta; rue.
  2. (rare) meadow-rue (plants in the genus Thalictrum)

Descendants

  • English: rue
  • Scots: rew

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey):(file)

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) road, street

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

rue f (definite singular rua, indefinite plural ruer, definite plural ruene)

  1. a pile, heap
  2. a lump of manure, particularly from a cow

Synonyms

Further reading

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rue oblique singular, f (oblique plural rues, nominative singular rue, nominative plural rues)

  1. rue (plant)

Descendants

  • → Middle English: rue
  • French: rue

References

Venetian

Noun

rue

  1. plural of rua
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