See also: râie

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French roie, from a Vulgar Latin riga, probably from Gaulish *rica (furrow), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (furrow) (compare Old Irish rech).[1]

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
    une raie de champa field balk
  2. line
    J’ai fait une raie.I drew a line.
    tracer une raie au crayon, à la plumedraw a line with a pencil, a quill
  3. scratch, mark
  4. cleft (between the buttocks)
  5. stripe
    marbre marqué de raies noiresmarble marked with black lines
  6. parting (in hair)
    porter la raie au milieu, de côtéhave one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (zoology) ray
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Etymology 3

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Inflected forms.

Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of rayer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *140-141

Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈra.je/
  • Rhymes: -aje
  • Hyphenation: rà‧ie

Noun

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raie f pl

  1. plural of raia

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Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French roie, from Gaulish *rica (furrow).

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey, agriculture) furrow
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Etymology 2

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From Latin raia.

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey) skate, ray
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Old French

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Etymology

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First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.

Noun

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raie oblique singularf (oblique plural raies, nominative singular raie, nominative plural raies)

  1. ray (fish)

Descendants

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  • English ray
  • French: raie
  • Norman: raie (Jersey)

Portuguese

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Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative