rood

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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/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːd
  • Homophone: rude

Noun

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:
      Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]

Synonyms

Hypernyms

  • (quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

References

  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

Anagrams

Bavarian

Adjective

rood

  1. Alternative form of roud (“red”)

Dutch

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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

Adjective

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.

Inflection

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 —

Derived terms

Descendants

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

See also

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

Anagrams

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. red

Derived terms

References

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

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
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