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Definition rue

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hr?ow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-Germanic *hreww? (“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 ??????? (krušit?, “crush”).

Noun

rue (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hr?owan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwan? (“to sadden; repent”). Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

Verb

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.
4. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
5. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue (> modern French rue), from Latin r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhut?). Compare rude.

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.

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