rood

See also:Rööd

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishrode,rood(“cross”),fromOld Englishrōd(“cross”),fromProto-Germanic*rōdō,*rōdǭ(“rod, pole”),fromProto-Indo-European*rōt-,*reh₁t-(“bar, beam, stem”).

Cognate withGermanRute(“rod, cane, pole”),Norwegianroda(“rod”).Largely displaced bycross.More atrod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɹuːd/

  • Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-uːd
• Homophone:rude

Noun

rood(pluralroods)

1. (archaic)Acrucifix,cross,especially in achurch.
   • 1577,Raphaell Holinshed,“[The Historie of Irelande[…].]The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne ofHenry the Eyght:[...].”,inThe Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande[…],volume I, London:[…][Henry Bynneman]for Iohn Hunne,→OCLC,pages77–78,column 2:

     The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of y^eSouldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^{[sic– meaningrandom]}uppe to theRoodelofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

   • c.1599–1602(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv]:

     Have you forgot me? No, by therood,not so.

   • 1842,Alfred Tennyson,“The Day-Dream.The Revival.”, inPoems.[…],volume II, London:Edward Moxon,[…],→OCLC,page157:

     By holyrood,a royal beard! / How say you? we have slept, my lords. / My beard has grown into my lap.

2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of anacre.
   • 1855,Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, inMen and Women[…],volume I, London:Chapman and Hall,[…],→OCLC,stanza XXV:

     Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within arood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.

   • 1938,Xavier Herbert,chapter V, inCapricornia‎^[1],page58:

     […]a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltryroods.

   • 1956,Anthony Burgess,Time for a Tiger(The Malayan Trilogy), published1972,page195:

     Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the fewroodsof garden wished upon him.

3. (Chester,historical)An area of sixty-four square yards.
4. (UK,dialectal,obsolete)A measure of five and a halfyardsinlength.
   • 1667,John Milton,“Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:

     Thus Satan[…]his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many arood[…]

5. (archaic)The human face.
   • 13th century,Edmund of Abingdon(or Anonymous); reproduced in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.),English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century(1932), p. 1, from Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v:

     Nou goth sonne under wode,—
     Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.
     Nou goth sonne under tre,—
     Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.

Synonyms

• (quarter of an acre):farthingdale,day's work,daywork,farthing,ferling,farthingdeal,farthingdole,farundel,yard,rod,(Scottish)Scottish rood,(Israeli)dunam

Hypernyms

• (quarter of an acre):Seeacre

Hyponyms

• (quarter of an acre):lug,perch,(now chiefly Scottish)fall(all¹⁄₄₀rood)

Derived terms

• by the rood
• holy rood
• rood beam
• Rood End
• rood goose
• rood-loft
• rood screen
• rood-steeple
• rood-tree

Translations

crucifix

• Dutch:kruis(nl)n
• Finnish:krusifiksi(fi)
• Macedonian:распе́тиеn(raspétie)
• Vietnamese:Thánh Giá

quarter of an acre

• French:vergée(fr)f
• Irish:ródm
• Maori:rūri
• Norman:pèrquef(Jersey)

Anagrams

• ordo,O'Dor,door,oord,odor

Bavarian

Adjective

rood

1. Alternative form ofroud(“red”)

Dutch

Etymology

FromMiddle Dutchrôot,fromOld Dutchrōt,fromProto-West Germanic*raud,fromProto-Germanic*raudaz,fromProto-Indo-European*h₁rowdʰós,from the root*h₁rewdʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/roːt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:rood
• Rhymes:-oːt
• Homophone:Rooth

Adjective

rood(comparativeroder,superlativeroodst)

1. red

   Veel dakpannen zijnrood.―A lot of roof tiles arered.

   Zij draagt eenroodjurkje.―She wears areddress.

   Appels zijn vaakrood.―Apples are oftenred.

2. (politics)left,socialist,labor

   Derodepartij heeft de verkiezingen gewonnen.―Theleftistparty won the elections.

   Hij stemt altijdrood.―He always votesleft.

   Derodebeweging is in opkomst.―Thesocialistmovement is on the rise.

Declension

Declension ofrood
uninflected	rood
inflected	rode
comparative	roder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		rood	roder	hetroodst hetroodste
indefinite	m./f.sing.	rode	rodere	roodste
	n.sing.	rood	roder	roodste
	plural	rode	rodere	roodste
definite		rode	rodere	roodste
partitive		roods	roders	—

Noun

roodn(uncountable)

1. the colourred

Derived terms

general

• avondrood
• bloedrood
• bordeauxrood
• donkerrood
• infrarood
• kardinaalrood
• karmijnrood
• karmozijnrood
• kersrood
• knalrood
• koraalrood
• lichtrood
• morgenrood
• oranjerood
• paarsrood
• robijnrood
• rode draad
• rode fosfor
• rode lynx
• rodehond
• rodekool
• roodaarde
• roodachtig
• roodbaard
• roodblaar
• roodbont
• roodbruin
• roodfilter
• roodgeel
• roodgieter
• roodgloeiend
• roodharig
• roodheid
• roodhuid
• Roodkapje
• roodkoper
• roodkoraal
• roodkorst
• roodvonk
• roodwangig
• roodwild
• rooie cent
• rozenrood
• rozerood
• schaamrood
• scharlakenrood
• vuurrood
• wijnrood

plant and animal names

• rode bremraap
• rode haarkwal
• rode ibis
• rode klaver
• rode lepelaar
• rode reiger
• rode spoorbloem
• rode tiran
• rode valeriaan
• rode wouw
• rood bekermos
• rood bosvogeltje
• roodbaars
• roodbekwever
• roodborst
• roodborsttapuit
• roodbuikara
• roodforel
• roodgesterde blauwborst
• roodhalsfuut
• roodhalsgans
• roodhert
• roodkeelduiker
• roodkeelpieper
• roodkop
• roodkopklauwier
• roodmus
• roodpootaalscholver
• roodpootvalk
• roodrugpelikaan
• roodschouderara
• roodstaartraafkaketoe
• roodsterblauwborst
• roodstuitzwaluw
• roodwangara

Descendants

• Afrikaans:rooi
• Jersey Dutch:rôi
• Negerhollands:rooi,ro,roo,rood
• Skepi Creole Dutch:aro

See also

Colorsin Dutch ·kleuren(layout·text)

wit	grijs	zwart
rood;karmijnrood	oranje;bruin	geel;roomwit
groengeel/limoengroen	groen
blauwgroen/cyaan;groenblauw/petrolblauw	azuurblauw	blauw
violet;indigo	magenta;paars	roze

Anagrams

• door,oord

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

FromOld Frisianrād,fromProto-West Germanic*raud.Cognates includeWest FrisianreadandGermanRot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/roːd/
• Hyphenation:rood
• Rhymes:-oːd

Adjective

rood(masculineroden,feminine, plural or definiterode,comparativeroder,superlativeroodst)

1. red

Derived terms

• rood Täk

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “rood”,inSaterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht,Buske,→ISBN

Volapük

Noun

rood(nominative pluralroods)

1. category

Declension

declension ofrood

	singular	plural
nominative	rood	roods
genitive	rooda	roodas
dative	roode	roodes
accusative	roodi	roodis
vocative1	orood!	oroods!
predicative2	roodu	roodus

• ¹status as a case is disputed
• ²in later, non-classical Volapük only