Rue

Noun

 * 1)  Repentance, regret.
 * 2)  Pity, compassion.

Verb

 * 1)   To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
 * 2)   To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
 * 3)  To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
 * I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
 * 1)   To feel compassion or pity.
 * 2) * Late C14: Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Noun

 * 1) Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used in medicines.
 * 2) * c. 1600,, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, :
 * There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue
 * for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it
 * herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with
 * a difference.

Synonyms

 * garden rue
 * herb of grace

Adverbs for Rue
irreparably; miserably; utterly; ruthlessly; ingeniously;   traitorously;    vindictively; vengefully;  irretrievably;   irremediably; hideously; calamitously; financially; economically; politically.

Thesaurus
affliction, anguish, be sorry for, bemoan, bewail, care, commiseration, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, deplore, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, penance, penitently, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repent, repentance, repine, rue the day, ruth, sympathy, woe

Etymology 1
hreow:, from. Cognate with Dutch rouw:, German Reue:; related to Etymology 2, below.

Etymology 2
hreowan:, perhaps influenced by hryggja:, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen:, German reuen:.

Etymology 3
From rue: (retained in Modern French rue:), from  ruta:, from  ῥυτή:.

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: ruelse

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wijnruit
 * Estonian: ruud, aedruud
 * Finnish: ruuta, tuoksuruuta
 * French: rue odorante, herbe de grâce , Herbe à la belle Fille
 * German: Raute, Weinraute, Gertrudenkraut, Gnadenkraut, Kreuzraute, Totenkraut, Gartenraute, Weinkraut
 * Hebrew: פיגם
 * Hungarian: ruta, kerti ruta
 * Icelandic: rúturunni
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: gei
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: vinrute
 * Persian: (sudâb)
 * Polish: ruta zwyczajna
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: рута
 * Serbian: rutvica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: vinruta
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

 * eur.
 * ure

Noun

 * 1) street, road

Noun

 * 1) rue

Etymology 1
Developed figuratively from ruga:.

Etymology 2
ruta:, from ῥυτή:.

Etymology 3
From

Noun
rue