rut

See also: Rut, Rút, and rüt

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʌt/

Etymology 1

From Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

  1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
  2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
  3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

  1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
  2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
  3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Translations

Etymology 2

a rut on a main road (sense 1)

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”). See also rutter.

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

  1. (automotive) A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: groove, furrow
  2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]
    Synonym: routine
  3. (figuratively) A dull routine.
    Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

  1. (transitive) To make a furrow.
Translations
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Further reading

Anagrams

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • rot (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German rōt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʀuːt/

Adjective

rut (masculine rude, feminine rut, comparative ruder, superlative rutste)

  1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

French

Etymology

From Old French rut, from Latin rugītus. Compare also rugir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁyt/

Noun

rut m (plural ruts)

  1. rut (sexual excitement)

Further reading

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), akin to German rot, Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Adjective

rūt

  1. red
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