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See also: roué
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
roue (plural roues)
- Alternative spelling of roué
Breton[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Breton roe, from Old French roi. Akin to Cornish ruy > ruw, also from Old French. Replaced Old Breton ri; akin to Middle Welsh rhi, Irish rí, Scottish Gaelic rìgh, and Gaulish -rix, -rēx, from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Cognates include Sanskrit राज् (rā́j, “king”), राजन् (rājan), and Latin rēx (“king”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
roue m (plural rouanez)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
roue f (plural roues)
- 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
- the breaking wheel
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “roue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Manx[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
roue
Derived terms[edit]
- rouesyn (emphatic)
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