# rood
## 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: /ɹuːd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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, 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 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, [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, 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, 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, chapter V, in Capricornia‎, page 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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]
* (archaic) The human face.
** 13th century, Edmund of Abingdon (or Anonymous); reproduced in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.), English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (1932), p. 1, from Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v:
    Nou goth sonne under wode,— Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode. Nou goth sonne under tre,— Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.

#### 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
* holy rood
* rood beam
* Rood End
* rood goose
* rood-loft
* rood screen
* rood-steeple
* rood-tree

#### Translations
### 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

* ordo, O'Dor, door, oord, odor

## 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: /roːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: rood
* Rhymes: -oːt
* Homophone: Rooth

### Adjective

rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)
* red
    Veel dakpannen zijn rood. ― A lot of roof tiles are red.
    Zij draagt een rood jurkje. ― She wears a red dress.
    Appels zijn vaak rood. ― Apples are often red.
* (politics) left, socialist, labor
    De rode partij heeft de verkiezingen gewonnen. ― The leftist party won the elections.
    Hij stemt altijd rood. ― He always votes left.
    De rode beweging is in opkomst. ― The socialist movement is on the rise.

#### Declension
### Noun

rood n (uncountable)
* the colour red

#### Derived terms

* avondrood
* bloedrood
* bordeauxrood
* donkerrood
* infrarood
* kardinaalrood
* karmijnrood
* karmozijnrood
* kersrood
* knalrood
* koraalrood
* lichtrood
* morgenrood
* oranjerood
* paarsrood
* robijnrood
* rode draad
* rode fosfor
* rode lynx
* rodehond
* rodekool
* rodig
* roodaarde
* roodachtig
* roodbaard
* roodblaar
* roodbont
* roodbruin
* roodfilter
* roodgeel
* roodgieter
* roodgloeiend
* roodharig
* roodheid
* roodhuid
* Roodkapje
* roodkoper
* roodkoraal
* roodkorst
* roodvonk
* roodwangig
* roodwild
* rooie cent
* rozenrood
* rozerood
* schaamrood
* scharlakenrood
* steenrood
* vuurrood
* wijnrood
* rode Amerikaanse rivierkreeft
* rode bremraap
* rode haarkwal
* rode ibis
* rode klaver
* rode lepelaar
* rode reiger
* rode spoorbloem
* rode tiran
* rode valeriaan
* rode wouw
* rood bekermos
* rood bosvogeltje
* roodbaars
* roodbekwever
* roodborst
* roodborsttapuit
* roodbuikara
* roodforel
* roodgesterde blauwborst
* roodhalsfuut
* roodhalsgans
* roodhert
* roodkeelduiker
* roodkeelpieper
* roodkop
* roodkopklauwier
* roodmus
* roodpootaalscholver
* roodpootvalk
* roodrugpelikaan
* roodschouderara
* roodstaartraafkaketoe
* roodsterblauwborst
* roodstuitzwaluw
* roodwangara

#### Descendants

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

### See also

Colors in Dutch · kleuren (layout · text) :
| wit | grijs | zwart |
| rood; karmijnrood | oranje; bruin | geel; roomwit |
| groengeel/limoengroen | groen | |
| blauwgroen/cyaan; groenblauw/petrolblauw | azuurblauw | blauw |
| violet; indigo | magenta; paars | roze |

### 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: /roːd/
* Hyphenation: rood
* Rhymes: -oːd

### Adjective

rood (masculine roden, feminine, plural or definite 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

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