rood

See also: Rööd

English

Etymology

From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːd/

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Noun

rood (plural roods)

1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richard Stanihurst, “[The Historie of Irelande.] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: [...].”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564, pages 77–78, column 2:

     The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of ye Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^{[sic, meaning random]} uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     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.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:

     Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.

   • 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.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:

     Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.

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...

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• (quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• rood beam
• rood loft
• rood screen

Translations

crucifix

• Dutch: kruis (nl) n

• Finnish: krusifiksi (fi)

quarter of an acre

• French: vergée (fr) f
• Maori: rūri

• Norman: pèrque f

Anagrams

• door, odor, ordo

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːt/

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• Hyphenation: rood
• Rhymes: -oːt

Adjective

rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)

1. red

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

2. (politics) left, socialist, labor

Inflection

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 terms

• avondrood
• bloedrood
• bordeauxrood
• donkerrood
• infrarood
• kardinaalrood
• karmijnrood
• karmozijnrood
• kersrood
• knalrood
• koraalrood
• lichtrood
• morgenrood
• oranjerood
• paarsrood
• robijnrood
• rode draad
• rodehond
• rodekool
• roodaarde
• roodachtig
• roodbaard
• roodbaars
• roodblaar
• roodbont
• roodborstje
• roodbruin
• roodfilter
• roodforel
• roodgeel
• roodgieter
• roodgloeiend
• roodharig
• roodheid
• roodhert
• roodhuid
• Roodkapje
• roodkop
• roodkoper
• roodkoraal
• roodkorst
• roodmus
• roodpootvalk
• roodstuitzwaluw
• roodvonk
• roodwangig
• roodwild
• rooie cent
• rozenrood
• rozerood
• schaamrood
• scharlakenrood
• vuurrood
• wijnrood

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rooi

Anagrams

• door, oord

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Volapük

Noun

rood (nominative plural roods)

1. category

Declension

declension of rood

	singular	plural
nominative	rood	roods
genitive	rooda	roodas
dative	roode	roodes
accusative	roodi	roodis
vocative 1	o rood!	o roods!
predicative 2	roodu	roodus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only