raie

See also: râie

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French roie, from a Vulgar Latin riga, probably from Gaulish *rica (furrow), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (furrow) (compare Old Irish rech).[1]

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
    une raie de champa field balk
  2. line
    J’ai fait une raie.I drew a line.
    tracer une raie au crayon, à la plumedraw a line with a pencil, a quill
  3. scratch, mark
  4. cleft (between the buttocks)
  5. stripe
    marbre marqué de raies noiresmarble marked with black lines
  6. parting (in hair)
    porter la raie au milieu, de côtéhave one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (zoology) ray
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

raie

  1. inflection of rayer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *140-141

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.je/
  • Rhymes: -aje
  • Hyphenation: rà‧ie

Noun

raie f pl

  1. plural of raia

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French roie, from Gaulish *rica (furrow).

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey, agriculture) furrow
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin raia.

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey) skate, ray
Synonyms

Old French

Etymology

First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.

Noun

raie oblique singular, f (oblique plural raies, nominative singular raie, nominative plural raies)

  1. ray (fish)

Descendants

  • English ray
  • French: raie
  • Norman: raie (Jersey)

Portuguese

Verb

raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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