rood

See also: Rööd

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English rood, from Old English rōd (“a rod, pole, rood (land measure), plot of land of a square rod, a cross, rood (as in Holy-rood), gallows, a cross on which a person is executed, death on a cross, crucifix”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”). Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːd/

NounEdit

rood (plural roods)

1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark act III scene 4

     Have you forgot me?

     No, by the rood, not so.

2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 58, [1]

     […] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.

3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.
   • c 1667, John Milton, s:Paradise Lost (1667), Book I.

     Thus Satan...his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...

HypernymsEdit

• (quarter of an acre): See acre

SynonymsEdit

• (quarter of an acre): farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod, (Scottish) Scottish rood, (Israeli) dunam

HyponymsEdit

• (quarter of an acre): lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall (all ¹/₄₀ rood)

Derived termsEdit

• rood beam
• rood loft
• rood screen

TranslationsEdit

crucifix

• Dutch: kruis (nl) n

• Finnish: krusifiksi (fi)

quarter of an acre

• French: vergée (fr) f

• Norman: pèrque f

AnagramsEdit

• door, odor, ordo

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -oːt

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• IPA^(key): /roːt/

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch rôot, from Old Dutch rōd, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.

AdjectiveEdit

rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)

1. red

   Veel dakpannen zijn rood - A lot of roof tiles are red

2. (politics) labor

InflectionEdit

Inflection of rood
uninflected	rood
inflected	rode
comparative	roder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		rood	roder	het roodst het roodste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	rode	rodere	roodste
	n. sing.	rood	roder	roodste
	plural	rode	rodere	roodste
definite		rode	rodere	roodste
partitive		roods	roders	—

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from rood

• avondrood
• bloedrood
• bordeauxrood
• donkerrood
• infrarood
• kardinaalrood
• karmijnrood
• karmozijnrood
• kersrood
• knalrood
• koraalrood
• lichtrood
• morgenrood

• oranjerood
• paarsrood
• robijnrood
• rodehond
• rodekool
• roodaarde
• roodachtig
• roodbaard
• roodbaars
• roodblaar
• roodbont
• roodborstje
• roodbruin

• roodfilter
• roodforel
• roodgeel
• roodgieter
• roodgloeiend
• roodharig
• roodheid
• roodhuid
• Roodkapje
• roodkop
• roodkoper
• roodkoraal
• roodkorst

• roodmus
• roodpootvalk
• roodstuitzwaluw
• roodvonk
• roodwangig
• roodwild
• rozenrood
• rozerood
• schaamrood
• scharlakenrood
• vuurrood
• wijnrood

See alsoEdit

Colors in Dutch · kleuren (layout · text)
wit	grijs	zwart	bruin
roze	rood, karmijnrood	oranje	geel, roomwit
groengeel/limoengroen	groen	{{{mint green}}}, {{{dark green}}}	blauwgroen/cyaan, groenblauw/petrolblauw
azuurblauw	blauw	violet, indigo	magenta, paars

AnagramsEdit

• door, oord

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VolapükEdit

NounEdit

rood (plural roods)

1. category

DeclensionEdit

declension of rood

	singular	plural
nominative	rood	roods
genitive	rooda	roodas
dative	roode	roodes
accusative	roodi	roodis
predicative	roodu	roodus
vocative	o rood!	o roods!