rodor

rōdor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of rōdō

• "rodor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

rodor f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of rode

• rador, roder

From Proto-West Germanic *radur, from Proto-Germanic *raduraz (“wheel, sun, heaven, sky”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.dor/

rodor m

1. sky, heaven, heavens
   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     God ġeworhte ðā sōna twā sċīnende lēoht myċele and mǣre, mōnan and sunnan, ðā sunnan on meriġen tō ðǣs dæġes lihtinge, ðone mōnan on ǣfen mannum tō lihtinge on nihtlīcere tīde...And ealle steorran hē ēac ðā ġeworhte, and hē hī ġefæstnode on ðām fæstan rodore ðæt hī ðā eorðan onlīhton mid heora mæniġfealdum lēoman

     Thereafter, God made two shining lights, a greater one and a lesser one, the moon and the sun, with the Sun to shine by day, and the moon to shine by night...and he also made all the stars, and he fixed them in the firm heavens so that they could illumine the earth with their manyfold rays.

Strong a-stem:

• ūprodor