411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Roe
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
Appendix:Variations of "roe"
English
<dab!>
Pronunciation
rō US, en /ɹoʊ/
en en-us-roe.ogg US
en əʊ 1
en roe rho ; row Rowe<aa:toe-tow>
Etymology 1
From a en enm - nickname meaning a roe.
Proper noun
~ s
en nicknames.
en town co/Monroe County s/Arkansas c/USA.
Usage notes
This is often used as a pseudonymous surname, especially in legal proceedings.
Coordinate terms
English-language pseudonymous surname en Doe
Derived terms
pseudonymous name
en Richard Roe
en Jane Roe
Related terms
en Rae
en Roy
Etymology 2
From "Jane Roe", the legal pseudonym of the case's anonymous plaintiff.
Proper noun
en US law US politics informal en en Roe v. Wade the 1973 US Supreme Court case which legalized abortion and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.
en Luke Vander Ploeg Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary. The New York Times 2022-07-12 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/pregnant-woman-hov-lane-roe-wade.html 0362-4331 Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe.
Usage notes
Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 under Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in a 5–4 decision to overturn Roe (with the remaining portion of the case won on a 6–3 basis). That decision also called into question the en right to privacy.
Coordinate terms
en Casey Dobbs
Derived terms
en post-Roe
en Roevember
Etymology 3
From en ga an Ró ("the roaring one").
Proper noun
en river co/Londonderry p/Northern Ireland.
Etymology 4
From a en Final Fantasy XIV Roegadyn 1.
Noun
en Final Fantasy XIV FFXIV _ fandom slang An individual of the orclike Final Fantasy XIV Roegadyn race.
en Femroe Roegadame
en 5 April 2016 sammiimariie ffxiv 4dk5my d1rrlos My fiance is a Roe that looks pretty close to Ganondorf.
en 30 April 2021 Altair718 ffxiv n1tkyi gwf8dtf I've seen a few Hroths and a decent amount of Roes in my time on Jenova.
en 14 January 2023 Katapotomus ffxiv 10c1p50 j4dlpq0 While Roes are not to everyones taste the people who like Roes tend to REALLY like Roes https://web.archive.org/web/20250323013045/https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/10c1p50/comment/j4dlpq0/ 23 March 2025
See also
en Roe Green
Anagrams
en eor Reo ORE o'er EOR Ore REO öre eor Ore. ore øre reo OER
en eponyms
en Abortion Japanese fiction Video games