roue

roue (plural roues)

1. Alternative spelling of roué

From Middle Breton roe, from Proto-Celtic *ɸreimos; akin to Old Cornish ruy (whence Cornish ruw) and Welsh rhwyf (“king, leader”).

Replaced Old Breton ri, which was akin to Middle Welsh rhi, Irish rí, Scottish Gaelic rìgh, and Gaulish -rix, -rēx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːe/

roue m (plural rouanez)

1. king
2. bass (fish)

• IPA^(key): [ˈruᵊ]

roue (plural roue) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of roua (“wheel”)

• roue in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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.

• IPA^(key): /ʁu/

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

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

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

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

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roue

1. third-person plural of roish

   before them

• rouesyn (emphatic)