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You can make 6 words from rue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of rue

rue ure reu eru uer eur

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Definitions and meaning of rue

rue

Alternative forms

• rewe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuː/, /ɹɪu̯/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: roo, roux

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”). Compare German reuen (“to regret, to repent”) and Dutch berouwen (“to regret, to repent”).

Noun

rue (uncountable)

2. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
3. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.

Derived terms

• rue-bargain
• rueful
• ruefully
• ruefulness
• ruesome
• ruly
• ruth

Translations

Etymology 2

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”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”).

Verb

rue (third-person singular simple present rues, present participle ruing or rueing, simple past and past participle rued)

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
4. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
   • Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte

   • 1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley

     which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them

6. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.

Usage notes

• Often used in the collocation “rue the day”.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rue (plural rues)

1. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.

Derived terms

• common rue, garden rue (Ruta graveolens)
• goat's rue (Galega officinalis)
• rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
• Syrian rue (Peganum harmala)
• wall rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria)
• wild rue
• wild Syrian rue

Translations

Further reading

• rue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Chuukese

Numeral

rue

1. twenty

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”).

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. street, road

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French rue, rude, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. rue (the plant)

Etymology 3

From ruer.

Verb

rue

1. inflection of ruer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “rue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

rue

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ruar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Kabuverdianu

Verb

rue

1. gossip

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Latin

Verb

rue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ruō

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ruwe, rwe, rewe, reuwe, rew

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈriu̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -iu̯(ə)

Noun

rue

1. A kind of plant belonging to the genus Ruta; rue.
2. (rare) meadow-rue (plants in the genus Thalictrum)

Descendants

• English: rue
• Scots: rew

References

• “rūe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-7.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rue, developed figuratively from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rue f (plural rues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) road, street

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• ruve
• ruv (dialectal, Trøndelag)

Etymology

Compare Swedish ruva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²rʉːə/

Noun

rue f (definite singular rua, indefinite plural ruer, definite plural ruene)

1. a pile, heap
2. a lump of manure, particularly from a cow

Synonyms

• ruke
• rus (dialectal)

Further reading

• “rue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• rude

Etymology

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rue oblique singular, f (oblique plural rues, nominative singular rue, nominative plural rues)

1. rue (plant)

Descendants

References

• 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

Portuguese

Verb

rue

1. inflection of ruar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Venetian

Noun

rue

1. plural of rua

Source: wiktionary.org