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rood

See also: Rööd

English

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Etymology

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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.

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rood (plural roods)

  1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
  2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 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, chapter V, in Capricornia‎[1], page 58:
      […] 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. (Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards.[1]
  4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]
  5. (archaic) The human face.
    • 13th century, Edmund of Abingdon (or Anonymous); reproduced in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.), English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (1932), p. 1, from Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v:
      Nou goth sonne under wode,—
      Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.
      Nou goth sonne under tre,—
      Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.

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Hypernyms

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  • (quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

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

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

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Bavarian

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Adjective

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rood

  1. Alternative form of roud (“red”)

Dutch

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Etymology

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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-.

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Adjective

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rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)

  1. red
    Veel dakpannen zijn rood. ― A lot of roof tiles are red.
    Zij draagt een rood jurkje. ― She wears a red dress.
    Appels zijn vaak rood. ― Apples are often red.
  2. (politics) left, socialist, labor
    De rode partij heeft de verkiezingen gewonnen. ― The leftist party won the elections.
    Hij stemt altijd rood. ― He always votes left.
    De rode beweging is in opkomst. ― The socialist movement is on the rise.

Declension

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Declension 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 —

Noun

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rood n (uncountable)

  1. the colour red

Derived terms

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general
plant and animal names

Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: rooi
  • Jersey Dutch: rôi
  • Negerhollands: rooi, ro, roo, rood
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: aro

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

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raud. Cognates include West Frisian read and German Rot.

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Adjective

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rood (masculine roden, feminine, plural or definite rode, comparative roder, superlative roodst)

  1. red

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References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “rood”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Volapük

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Noun

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rood (nominative plural roods)

  1. category

Declension

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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

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