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 (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

rore (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) dew
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈroː.re/, [ˈroːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.re/, [ˈrɔːre]

rōre

1. ablative singular of rōs

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rore

1. to trap, to ensnare
2. to entangle, to glide
3. to deceive

rore

1. trap, snare

rore

1. deceitful

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rore

1. rainbow

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “rore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 405
• “rore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.re/

rore

1. gravel, pebbles
2. Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾo.ɾe/

rore

1. gravel
2. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh