raie

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See also: râie

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old French roie, from a Vulgar Latin riga, probably from Gaulish *rica (“furrow”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”) (compare Old Irish rech).[1]

Noun[edit]

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
    une raie de champ ― a field balk
  2. line
    J’ai fait une raie. ― I drew a line.
    tracer une raie au crayon, à la plume ― draw a line with a pencil, a quill
  3. scratch, mark
  4. cleft (between the buttocks)
  5. stripe
    marbre marqué de raies noires ― marble marked with black lines
  6. parting (in hair)
    porter la raie au milieu, de côté ― have one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun[edit]

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (zoology) ray
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Inflected forms.

Verb[edit]

raie

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

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *140-141

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

raie

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

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.je/
  • Rhymes: -aje
  • Hyphenation: rà‧ie

Noun[edit]

raie f pl

  1. plural of raia

Anagrams[edit]

Norman[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French roie, from Gaulish *rica (“furrow”).

Noun[edit]

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey, agriculture) furrow
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin raia.

Noun[edit]

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey) skate, ray
Synonyms[edit]

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.

Noun[edit]

raie oblique singular, f (oblique plural raies, nominative singular raie, nominative plural raies)

  1. ray (fish)

Descendants[edit]

  • English ray
  • French: raie
  • Norman: raie (Jersey)

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

raie

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