See also: râie

French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
  • (file)

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun edit

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (zoology) ray
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Inflected forms.

Verb edit

raie

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

Further reading edit

References edit

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

Anagrams edit

Galician edit

Verb edit

raie

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

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

raie f pl

  1. plural of raia

Anagrams edit

Norman edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey, agriculture) furrow
Synonyms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin raia.

Noun edit

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey) skate, ray
Synonyms edit

Old French edit

Etymology edit

First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.

Noun edit

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

  1. ray (fish)

Descendants edit

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

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

raie

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