roe

Meanings

1. Eggs of fish.
2. Sperm of certain fish.
3. Ovaries of certain crustaceans.

1. Ellipsis of roe deer.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

1. Initialism of return on equity, a measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
2. Initialism of rule(s) of engagement, a/the rule(s) governing when to fire or return fire.
3. Abbreviation of record of employment.

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A town in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.

1. Ellipsis of 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.

1. A river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

1. Alternative form of ROE.

Etymology

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).