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Roe vs Rore - What's the difference?

roe | rore |

As nouns the difference between roe and rore

is that roe is the eggs of fish while rore is dew.

As a proper noun Roe

is {{surname|from=nicknames}}, from a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

roe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-) (wikipedia roe)
  • The eggs of fish.
  • The sperm of certain fish.
  • The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    • Quotations
    * 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)
    Synonyms
    * (sperm) milt
    Derived terms
    * hard roe * soft roe * white roe

    See also

    * caviar * egg

    References

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ro, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun) (Roe Deer)
  • A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
  • A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
    • Synonyms
    * roe deer, chevreuil
    Derived terms
    * roebuck

    Anagrams

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    rore

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) dew
  • * circa'' 1600 : , 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

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    References

    * “ †rore, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----