rood

See also: Rööd

English

Etymology

From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).

Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹuːd/
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Rhymes: -uːd
Homophone: rude

Noun

rood (plural roods)

(archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: [...].”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, OCLC 55195564, pages 77–78, column 2:
  The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of y^e Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^{[sic – meaning random]} uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
  Have you forgot me? No, by the rood, not so.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Revival.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 157:
  By holy rood, a royal beard! / How say you? we have slept, my lords. / My beard has grown into my lap.
A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 1561924, stanza XXV:
  Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 58,
  […] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:
  Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.
(Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]

Synonyms

(quarter of an acre): farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod, (Scottish) Scottish rood, (Israeli) dunam

Hypernyms

(quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

(quarter of an acre): lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall (all ¹⁄₄₀ rood)

Derived terms

by the rood
rood beam
Rood End
rood loft
rood screen

Translations

crucifix

Dutch: kruis (nl) n
Finnish: krusifiksi (fi)

quarter of an acre

French: vergée (fr) f
Irish: ród m
Maori: rūri
Norman: pèrque f (Jersey)

References

Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

Anagrams

door, odor, ordo

Bavarian

Adjective

rood

Alternative form of roud (“red”)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôot, from Old Dutch rōt, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /roːt/
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Hyphenation: rood
Rhymes: -oːt
Homophone: Rooth

Adjective

rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)

red
Veel dakpannen zijn rood - A lot of roof tiles are red
(politics) left, socialist, labor

Inflection

Inflection of rood
uninflected	rood
inflected	rode
comparative	roder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		rood	roder	het roodst het roodste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	rode	rodere	roodste
	n. sing.	rood	roder	roodste
	plural	rode	rodere	roodste
definite		rode	rodere	roodste
partitive		roods	roders	—

Derived terms

avondrood
bloedrood
bordeauxrood
donkerrood
infrarood
kardinaalrood
karmijnrood
karmozijnrood
kersrood
knalrood
koraalrood
lichtrood
morgenrood
oranjerood
paarsrood
robijnrood
rode draad
rodehond
rodekool
roodaarde
roodachtig
roodbaard
roodbaars
roodblaar
roodbont
roodborstje
roodbruin
roodfilter
roodforel
roodgeel
roodgieter
roodgloeiend
roodharig
roodheid
roodhert
roodhuid
Roodkapje
roodkop
roodkoper
roodkoraal
roodkorst
roodmus
roodpootvalk
roodstuitzwaluw
roodvonk
roodwangig
roodwild
rooie cent
rozenrood
rozerood
schaamrood
scharlakenrood
vuurrood
wijnrood

Descendants

Afrikaans: rooi
Jersey Dutch: rôi
Negerhollands: rooi, ro, roo, rood
Skepi Creole Dutch: aro

Anagrams

door, oord

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raud. Cognates include West Frisian read and German Rot.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /roːd/
Hyphenation: rood
Rhymes: -oːd

Adjective

rood (inflected rode, comparative roder, superlative roodst)

red

Derived terms

rood Täk

References

Marron C. Fort (2015), “rood”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Volapük

Noun

rood (nominative plural roods)

category

Declension

declension of rood

	singular	plural
nominative	rood	roods
genitive	rooda	roodas
dative	roode	roodes
accusative	roodi	roodis
vocative ¹	o rood!	o roods!
predicative ²	roodu	roodus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

[Holland-1] Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3