rode

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rode"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rōd, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊd/
• (US) enPR: rōd, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊd/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /rod/
• Homophones: Rhode, road (general), rowed (except Scotland)
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Etymology 1

Verb

rode

1. simple past of ride
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
   • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] ‎^[1], page 26:

     No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief […]

   • 1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] ‎^[2], volume II:

     We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.

   • 2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues)‎^[3], Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100:

     I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.

Etymology 2

Verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

1. (ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:

     "When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."

Etymology 3

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.

Synonyms

• warp

Translations

The line from the vessel to its anchor

• Dutch: reed (nl), reden (nl)
• Finnish: ankkuriköysi (fi) (rope), ankkurikettinki (fi) (chain)
• Icelandic: reið (is)
• Norwegian: red (no)

Etymology 4

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. Obsolete form of road.
   • 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:

     Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461:

     There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1:

     And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites.

Anagrams

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, doer, orde, redo, roed

Alemannic German

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ˈrodə/

Verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
   • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:

     Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrodɛ]

Noun

rode

1. vocative singular of rod

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːdə/, [ˈʁoːðə]

Noun

rode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)

1. (military) file
2. tax collector's district

Declension

Declension of rode

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rode	roden	roder	roderne
genitive	rodes	rodens	roders	rodernes

Verb

rode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)

1. to mess up (make a physical mess of)
2. to rummage, to root

References

• “rode” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• rooie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.də/

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Adjective

rode

1. inflection of rood:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Anagrams

• orde

French

Verb

rode

1. inflection of roder:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• dore, doré

Galician

Verb

rode

1. inflection of rodar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

rode

1. inflection of roden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Anagrams

• oder

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːrə/

Verb

rode

1. to guess

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Italian

Verb

rode

1. third-person singular present indicative of rodere

Anagrams

• -edro, orde, redo

Latin

Verb

rōde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

• rod, rood, roude, rud, rude

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːd(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːd

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. A cross or gibbet
2. The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
   1. A crucifix
   2. Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation, as in "an oðer rode to berene" (another cross to bear)
3. A rod, pole, or bar
4. A quarter of an acre; a rood
5. In place names: a woodland clearing.

Descendants

• English: rood
• Scots: rude, ruid
• English: Rhode, Rhodes

References

• “rọ̄de, n.(5).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
• “road, Etymology, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2023.
• Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
• Room, Adrian (1988) Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, s.v. Blackrod(p. 42)
• Joseph Bosworth (1921) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. rōd(pp. 689–690)

Etymology 2

From Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

• rade, rod, rood, roode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ride, journey, voyage
2. harbour, roadstead

Related terms

• brandreth

Descendants

• English: road
• Scots: raid
  • → English: raid, rade (Scotland)
    • → Spanish: raid
    • → French: raid
    • → Italian: raid
    • → Polish: rajd
    • → Romanian: raid
    • → Swedish: räd
• → Old French: *rade
  • Middle French: rade
    • French: rade
      • → Catalan: rada
      • → Italian: rada
      • → Spanish: rada

References

• “rōde, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 3

From Old English rudu.

Alternative forms

• rodde, roode, rud, rudde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrud(ə)/, /ˈroːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ruddiness, redness
2. face, appearance, visage
3. Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)

Related terms

• rody
• ruddok
• ruden

Descendants

• English: rud
• Scots: rud, rudd

References

• “rōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
• “rōde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 4

From Old English ġerād, rād.

Alternative forms

• rad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔːd/

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. (rare) reckoning, judgement, account

References

• “rōde, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 5

Noun

rode (plural roddes)

1. Alternative form of rodde (“rod”)

Etymology 6

From Old English hreod.

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. reed, a reedy place

Descendants

• English: Rhude
• English: Rudd

References

• Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
• Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rudd (no pagination)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.

Noun

rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)

1. (military) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse roða.

Alternative forms

• roda (a and split infinitives)

Verb

rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)

1. (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
2. (transitive) to make red
3. (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven

References

• “rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.

Verb

rode

1. to advise, to counsel
2. to guess

Plautdietsch

Verb

rode

1. to guess
2. to advise, to suggest

Portuguese

Verb

rode

1. inflection of rodar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

1. vocative singular of rod

Noun

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

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

Verb

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

1. third-person plural present of roditi

Venetan

Noun

rode

1. plural of roda