rue

• rewe (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɹuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: roo, roux

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”). Compare German reuen (“to regret, to repent”).

rue (uncountable)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
2. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.

• rue-bargain
• rueful
• ruefully
• ruefulness
• ruesome
• ruly
• ruth

From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hrēowan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”).

rue (third-person singular simple present rues, present participle ruing or rueing, simple past and past participle rued)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
3. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.

   I rued the day I crossed paths with her.

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:

     I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4:

     Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues.

   • 2009, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race:

     And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.

   • 2009, Erica James, It's The Little Things:

     As far as they were concerned, he must be ruing the day he ever met Sally.

   • 2012, Joy Fielding, Still Life:

     And was the fact she was no longer losing large chunks of time something to be celebrated or something to be rued?

   • 2014, Gary Meehan, True Fire:

     “If we get in a fight, you'll be ruing your lack of training.”

   • 2017, Lorde (lyrics and music), “Writer in the Dark”:

     Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

4. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
   • Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte

   • 1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley

     which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them

5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
   • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 3944791:

     Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.

• Often used in the collocation “rue the day”.

Rue (plant)

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

rue (plural rues)

1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Ophelia
     There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference.

• common rue, garden rue (Ruta graveolens)
• goat's rue (Galega officinalis)
• rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
• Syrian rue (Peganum harmala)
• wall rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria)

• rue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ure, ERU, EUR, Eur., Ure, eur-, eur., ure

rue

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /ʁy/

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From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”).

rue f (plural rues)

1. street, road

From Old French rue, rude, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

rue f (plural rues)

1. rue (the plant)

From ruer.

rue

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

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

rue

1. gossip

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

rue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ruō

• ruwe, rwe, rewe, reuwe, rew

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈriu̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -iu̯(ə)

rue

1. A kind of plant belonging to the genus Ruta; rue.
2. (rare) meadow-rue (plants in the genus Thalictrum)

• English: rue
• Scots: rew

• “rūe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-7.

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”).

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rue f (plural rues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) road, street

• ruve

• IPA^(key): /²rʉːə/

rue f (definite singular rua, indefinite plural ruer, definite plural ruene)

1. a pile, heap
2. a lump of manure, particularly from a cow

• ruke

• “rue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• rude

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

rue f (oblique plural rues, nominative singular rue, nominative plural rues)

1. rue (plant)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rue, supplement)
• rue on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

rue

1. plural of rua