rore

Borrowed from Latin rōs, rōris (“dew, moisture”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rôr, IPA^(key): /ɹɔː/
• (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA^(key): /ɹɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rōr, IPA^(key): /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: roar
• Homophone: raw (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

rore (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) dew
   • circa 1600: William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, 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.

• “†rore, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.re/

rōre

1. ablative singular of rōs

rore

1. rainbow