rove
See also: røve
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹəʊv/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɹoʊv/
- Rhymes: -əʊv
Etymology 1Edit
Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).
VerbEdit
rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
- And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
- (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- (transitive) To roam or wander through.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
- (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- To draw through an eye or aperture.
- To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
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TranslationsEdit
to wander about at random
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NounEdit
rove (plural roves)
- A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
- A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
- The act of wandering; a ramble.
- 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, OCLC 753424981, page 318:
- In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected forms.
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DeclensionEdit
Inflection of rove (Kotus type 48/hame, p-v gradation) | |||
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nominative | rove | ropeet | |
genitive | ropeen | ropeiden ropeitten | |
partitive | rovetta | ropeita | |
illative | ropeeseen | ropeisiin ropeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rove | ropeet | |
accusative | nom. | rove | ropeet |
gen. | ropeen | ||
genitive | ropeen | ropeiden ropeitten | |
partitive | rovetta | ropeita | |
inessive | ropeessa | ropeissa | |
elative | ropeesta | ropeista | |
illative | ropeeseen | ropeisiin ropeihin | |
adessive | ropeella | ropeilla | |
ablative | ropeelta | ropeilta | |
allative | ropeelle | ropeille | |
essive | ropeena | ropeina | |
translative | ropeeksi | ropeiksi | |
instructive | — | ropein | |
abessive | ropeetta | ropeitta | |
comitative | — | ropeineen |
Possessive forms of rove (type hame) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | ropeeni | ropeemme |
2nd person | ropeesi | ropeenne |
3rd person | ropeensa |