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What Does Rue Mean?
What Does Rue Mean?. For such a small word, rue has quite a few meanings. Standing for deep emotions, types of medicinal herbs and the most common word on French street signs, the word rue takes on several forms.
For such a small word, rue has quite a few meanings. Standing for deep emotions, types of medicinal herbs and the most common word on French street signs, the word rue takes on several forms.
Verb
As a verb, to rue means to regret intensely or to regret something.
Verb 2
As a verb, rue can also mean to have compassion as in "tears of pitying rue," one dictionary offers.
Noun
As a noun, rue is synonymous with sorrow, repentance, anguish, remorse, commiseration, compassion and contrition.
Perennial Plants
There are several plants referred to by the name rue: ruta graveolens, a perennial plant used in medicine and having a pungent odor and a bitter taste; rue anemone, a white and yellow springtime flower with rounded leaves; and ruta-muraria, a fern plant growing on vertical rocky surfaces in Europe and New England and commonly called wall rue.
French Street
Rue is French for street or road.
Swiss Municipality
Rue is also a municipality in the Swiss district of Glane in the Fribourg canton.
