roué

Etymology

Borrowed from French roué.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːeɪ/

Noun

roué (plural roués)

1. A debauched or lecherous person.
   • 2005, Richard Brooks and Stuart Wavell, "Rumpole takes a great big spanking", The Sunday Times, August 14, 2005:

     The old roué, twice married and patriarch of an extended family, never concealed the fact that he was “a ladies’ man”.

Anagrams

• Euro, Euro-, euro, ouer, ureo-

Etymology

Past participle of rouer (“to break upon a wheel; to beat harshly”), from the belief that such individuals deserve such a punishment. Rouer derives from the Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, to roll”).

Noun

roué m (plural roués, feminine rouée)

1. A roué, a debauched or lecherous person

Verb

roué m (feminine singular rouée, masculine plural roués, feminine plural rouées)

1. past participle of rouer

Further reading

• “roué” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• euro

Alternative forms

• rouai (Jersey)
• rwe (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French roi, from Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Noun

roué m (plural roués)

1. (France) king