rore
See also: røre
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin rōs, rōris (“dew, moisture”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rôr, IPA(key): /ɹɔː/
- (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA(key): /ɹɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rōr, IPA(key): /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: roar
- Homophone: raw (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun edit
rore (uncountable)
- (obsolete) dew
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- Demeas: Let it bee lawfull for mee (most honorable not onerable paire) awhile to reteyne & deteyne ligate & obligate your eares with my words neither aspersed or inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence, yee are both like in nature, & in nurture alike in Genius & both alike ingenuous. What Timon refuses Callimela refuses, what Callimela wills Timon also wills, soe that Callimela may not bee but Timons Callimela, and Timon but Callimelas Timon.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “†rore, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈroː.re/, [ˈroːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈro.re/, [ˈrɔːre]
Noun edit
rōre
Maori edit
Noun edit
rore
Sahu edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rore
References edit
- Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill
Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rore
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh