rore

See also: røre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rōs, rōris (“dew, moisture”).

Pronunciation

• (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 (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

rore (uncountable)

1. (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

• roral
• rorant
• roration
• rorid
• roriferous
• rorifluent
• rorifluous
• rorigenous
• rorulent
• rory

References

• “†rore, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.re/, [ˈroːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.re/, [ˈrɔːre]

Noun

rōre

1. ablative singular of rōs

Maori

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

rore

1. to trap, to ensnare
2. to entangle, to glide
3. to deceive

Noun

rore

1. trap, snare

Adjective

rore

1. deceitful

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

rore

1. rainbow

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “rore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 405
• “rore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Sahu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.re/

Noun

rore

1. gravel, pebbles
2. Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)

References

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾo.ɾe/

Noun

rore

1. gravel
2. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh