roue

See also: roué

English

Noun

roue (plural roues)

1. Alternative spelling of roué

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton roe, from Old French roi. Akin to Cornish ruy > ruw, also from Old French. Replaced Old Breton ri; akin to Middle Welsh rhi, Irish rí, Scottish Gaelic rìgh, and Gaulish -rix, -rēx, from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Cognates include Sanskrit राज् (rā́j, “king”), राजन् (rājan), and Latin rēx (“king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːe/

Noun

roue m (plural rouanez)

1. king
2. bass (fish)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ruee, from earlier rode, from Latin rota, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”). The current form may have been influenced by rouer and rouelle.

Doublet of rote, a borrowing from Medieval Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: rouent, roues, roux
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

roue f (plural roues)

1. a wheel

   Une roue de vélo (bike wheel), une roue de secours (spare wheel)

   Roue de moulin: mill wheel.

   Roue dentée (or engrenage): toothed wheel, cogwheel

2. the breaking wheel

Derived terms

• cinquième roue du carrosse
• grande roue
• la roue tourne
• mettre des bâtons dans les roues
• patin à quatre roues
• patinage à roues alignées
• réinventer la roue
• rouage
• roue de secours
• roue en acier
• roue en alliage
• se mettre dans la roue (de quelqu’un)
• sur les chapeaux de roue
• vielle à roue

 

Related terms

• rôder, rond, rotatif, rotation, rotonde, rotule, rouelle, rouer, rouleau, rouler, roulette

Further reading

• “roue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

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Manx

Pronoun

roue

1. third-person plural of roish

   before them

Derived terms

• rouesyn (emphatic)