roue

Signification

1. a wheel
2. the breaking wheel

Genre

♀️ Féminin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʁu/

Étymologie

Inherited from Old French ruee, from earlier rode, from Latin rota, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”). The current form may have been influenced by rouer and rouelle.
Doublet of rote, a borrowing from Medieval Latin.