rouleur

English

WOTD – 17 July 2022

Etymology

The French professional cyclist Sandy Casar is regarded as a rouleur.

Borrowed from French rouleur (“one who causes something to roll, roller; something which rolls; cyclist who performs well on flat and undulating roads, rouleur”), from rouler (“to roll”) + -eur (suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs). Rouler is derived from Old French ruele, roele (“small wheel”) (from Medieval Latin rotulō, from Latin rotula (“small wheel; a roll”), from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -ula (feminine singular of -ulus (diminutive suffix))) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈlɜː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹuˈlɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: roul‧eur

Noun

rouleur (plural rouleurs)

1. (cycle racing) A cyclist who performs well on flat and undulating roads.

Translations

cyclist who performs well on flat and undulating roads

• Finnish: tasamaa-ajaja
• French: rouleur (fr) m, rouleuse (fr) f
• Italian: passista m or f
• Japanese: ルーラー
• Spanish: rodador m, rodadora (es) f

Further reading

• rouleur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From rouler (“to roll”) +‎ -eur (suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.lœʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: roul‧eur

Adjective

rouleur (feminine rouleuse, masculine plural rouleurs, feminine plural rouleuses)

1. rolling; that rolls

Noun

rouleur m (plural rouleurs, feminine rouleuse)

1. roller
2. (cycle racing) rouleur

Further reading

• “rouleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.