roué ‘a man who recklessly indulges in sensual pleasures; a rake’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:rouer ‘to break on a wheel’ < Lat. 

    F. roué ‘dissipated man, rake’ < Lat. rotare ‘roll’ < Lat. rota ‘a wheel, a potter’s wheel; wheel for torture’ < rou < ret- < Tamil uruḷ

English words derived from Tamil uruḷ connoting ‘roll’