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 (nonrhotic accents with the 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) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.re/, [ˈroːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.re/, [ˈrɔːre]

Noun

rōre

1. ablative singular of rōs

Maori

Noun

rore

1. rainbow

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