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rude

See also: Rude, rudé, rudě, rudę, rüde, and Rüde

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

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rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)

  1. Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
    This girl was so rude towards the cashier by screaming at him for no apparent reason.
    Karen broke up with Fred because he was often rude to her.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
      Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress?
      Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
      That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
    • 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, ch 6:
      [S]he was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it.
  2. Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:6:
      But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Though not as shee with Bow and Quiver armd,
      But with such Gardning Tools as Are yet rude,
      Guiltless of fire had formd, or Angels brought […]
    • 1767, Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society:
      It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      She had one of the caves fitted up as a laboratory, and, although her appliances were necessarily rude, the results that she attained were, as will become clear in the course of this narrative, sufficiently surprising.
    • 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
      When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
      Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
      And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
      Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
    • 1983 [1981], Crowley, John, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 583:
      There was a rude bridge there, much fallen, where floating branches caught and white water swirled; […]
  3. Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
    a rude awakening
    • 1577, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9:
      The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds
      Justling or pusht with Winds rude in thir shock
  4. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
    a rude film
    rude language
  5. Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
  6. Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, Economy:
      A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands.
  7. Crudely made; primitive.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 1
      For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.

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EtymologyEdit

From Latin rudis.

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rude (masculine and feminine plural rudes)

  1. uncultured, rough

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DanishEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).

NounEdit

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. pane
  2. window
  3. square
  4. lozenge, diamond
InflectionEdit
Declension of rude
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rude ruden ruder ruderne
genitive rudes rudens ruders rudernes

Etymology 2Edit

From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).

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rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. (botany) rue (various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta)
InflectionEdit
Declension of rude
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rude ruden ruder ruderne
genitive rudes rudens ruders rudernes

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).

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rude (plural rudes)

  1. rough, harsh
    • March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
      "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")
  2. tough, hard; severe
  3. bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
  4. crude, unpolished
  5. hardy, tough, rugged
  6. (informal) formidable, fearsome

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FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

NounEdit

rude f (plural rudis)

  1. rue, common rue (Ruta graveolens)

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rudis, rudem.

AdjectiveEdit

rude

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

ReferencesEdit

  • “rude” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rudis.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.de/
  • Rhymes: -ude
  • Syllabification: rù‧de

AdjectiveEdit

rude (invariable)

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

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LatinEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rude

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of rudis

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VerbEdit

rude

  1. Alternative form of rudden

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rudis.

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rude m or f

  1. (Jersey) rough

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PolishEdit

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rude

  1. inflection of rudy:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rudis.

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AdjectiveEdit

rude m or f (plural rudes)

  1. rude; bad-mannered
    Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

rude f pl

  1. plural of rudă

Serbo-CroatianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

rude

  1. inflection of rud:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)

  1. inflection of ruda:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

SlovakEdit

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rude

  1. dative/locative singular of ruda

VenetianEdit

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rude

  1. plural of ruda
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