rue

• IPA^(key): /ɹuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: roo

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwō (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew-, *krow-, *krows- (“to push, fall, beat, break”). Cognate with Scots rew (“rue”), West Frisian rouw (“sadness”), Dutch rouw (“mourning, sadness”), German Reue (“repentance, regret, remorse, contrition”), Lithuanian krùšti (“to smash, crash, bruise”), Russian крушить (krušitʹ, “crush”).

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”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”). Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Chapman

     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.”

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

   • (Can we date this quote?) Ridley

     which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them

5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     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 (> modern French rue), from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ). Compare rude.

rue (plural rues)

1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used in medicines.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

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

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, 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.

• garden rue
• herb of grace

• goat's rue
• rue anemone
• Syrian rue
• wall rue

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

rue

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /ʁy/

• audio (une rue)

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From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“to become encrusted”), extension of *krew- (“scab”)

rue f (plural rues)

1. street, road

• ruelle
• vélorue

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. first-person singular present indicative of ruer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ruer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of ruer
5. second-person singular imperative of ruer

• “rue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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 ruwe, 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”).

• Audio (Jersey)

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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)

• Middle English: rue (borrowed)
  • English: rue
• French: rue

• 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