rood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. archaic
    — The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
  2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
    — 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.
  3. An area of sixty-four square yards. historical
  4. A measure of five and a half yards in length. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]
  5. The human face. archaic
    — Nou goth sonne under wode,— Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode. Nou goth sonne under tre,—

词形变化

roods plural

词汇关系

衍生词
by the rood holy rood Holyrood rood beam Rood End rood goose rood-loft Roodmas rood screen rood-steeple rood-tree

词源

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.
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