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Roger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • rŏʹjər (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • [ˈroː.dʒɐ] Ghanaian

Etymology

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.

Synonyms

Romeo

Roger en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • rŏʹjər (General-American)
  • (General-American) audio
  • [ˈroː.dʒɐ] Ghanaian

Etymology

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

Meanings

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes. 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian:
    • By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
    • Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle. 1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127:
  2. (qualifier:rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete) The Devil; Satan.
  4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
    • The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […] 1906, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 410:

Forms

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Rogers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Rogergnome · Rogerian · Jolly Roger · Rogernomics · Rogers Dry Lake · hang a Roger · Roger Mills County · Strickland Roger · Roger River

Relateds

Rodgerson · Hodkin · Rudge · Dodgshon · Rodgers · Hodgetts · Hodgin · Prosser · Dodge · Hodkinson · Hodgen · Hotchkiss · Hodgins · Rogers · Ruggles · Hodgett · Rosser · Hotchkin · Rodger · Hodge · Hodgskin · Dodson · Rog · Dodgeon · Hodgkinson · Dodgin · Hodges · Hodgson · Hodgkins · Rodger · Hodgkison · Hodgkin · Hodgkisson · Hodson · Hodgkiss · Rogerson · Hodgeon · Doidge · Dodgson · Hodge · Hadgkiss · Hotchin

Translations (34)

el Ρογήρος (male given name) · frm Rogier (male given name) · fo Róar (male given name) · mr रॉजर (male given name) · pt Rogério (male given name) · el Ρότζερ (male given name) · fr Roger (male given name) · no Roar (male given name) · bn রজার (male given name) · ru Ро́джер (male given name) · sl Rogerij (male given name) · fi Roger (male given name) · no Roger (male given name) · nv Lájoo (male given name) · sh Руђер (male given name) · fro Rogier (male given name) · la Rogerius (male given name) · oc Rotger (male given name) · gl Roxelio (male given name) · sv Roger (male given name) · is Hróðgeir (male given name) · es Rogelio (male given name) · gv Roree (male given name) · de Rüdiger (male given name) · pl Roger (male given name) · scn Ruggeru (male given name) · ca Roger (male given name) · ja ロジャー (male given name) · cmn 羅傑 /罗杰 (male given name) · eo Roĝero (male given name) · nl Rutger (male given name) · de Rutger (male given name) · it Ruggero (male given name) · nl Rogier (male given name)