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fere

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fiːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: fear

Etymology 1

From Middle English fere, from (Northumbrian) Old English fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra (whence also Middle English y-fere).

Alternative forms

• pheer, feer

Noun

fere (plural feres)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
2. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.

Derived terms

• ferede

Etymology 2

From Middle English fer, from Anglo-Norman fer, from Old French fier. Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

Adjective

fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

1. (obsolete) Fierce.

Anagrams

• -free, Free, feer, free, reef

Aromanian

Preposition

fere

1. alternative form of fãrã.

Related terms

• nafore

See also

• chend

Galician

Verb

fere

1. third-person singular present indicative of ferir
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ferir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *feros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-o- (“tight, close by”), a derivative of *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.reː], [ˈfɛ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.re]

Note: this frequent and colloquial word normally undergoes iambic shortening of the last syllable in Plautus, but is kept long in Classical dactylic verse for archaic effect; it becomes short again in Late Latin.

Adverb

ferē̆ (not comparable)

1. (close enough) roughly, approximately, mostly, more or less, around, about

   Synonym: fermē
2. (indistinguishable from) nearly, practically, virtually, almost, well-nigh, quite

   Synonyms: fermē, prope, paene, iū̆xtā

3. (in general) often, normally, usually, generally, as a rule, in most cases, mainly

   Synonyms: fermē, plērumque, vulgō

Derived terms

• fermē

Etymology 2

From for.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.re]

Verb

fēre

1. alternative form of fēris, second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

References

• “ferē” on page 752 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *fāru, from Proto-Germanic *fērō.

Alternative forms

• fer, feer, feere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛːr/

Noun

fere (plural feris)

1. fear

Related terms

• feren

Descendants

• English: fear
• Scots: fere, feir
• Yola: vear

References

• “fēr, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English feorh, from Proto-West Germanic *ferh, from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz.

Noun

fere (uncountable)

1. life

References

• “fẹ̄re, n.(4)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Alternative forms

• féther (Jersey)

Etymology

fé (“iron”) +‎ -er

Verb

fere

1. (Sark) to iron

Nupe

Etymology

Compare Yoruba fèrè.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fè.ɾè/

Noun

fèrè (plural fèrèzhì)

1. small whistle; flute

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.re/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”)

Adjective

fēre

1. passable, able to go
2. (of persons) able, fit for action or travel
3. (of ships) seaworthy

Declension

Derived terms

• langfēre

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle English: fēre
  • English: fere, fear (“able”) (dialectal)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fere n

1. dative, instrumental of ferh

References

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fēre

1. first-person singular present indicative of fēran

Old French

Verb

fere

1. alternative form of faire

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fe‧re

Verb

fere

1. inflection of ferir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ɾe/

Verb

fere (Jawi فيري)

1. (intransitive) to ascend
2. (intransitive, transitive) to climb
3. (intransitive, of the Sultan's palace) to go, go to, enter

   ana ifere toma kadato ― they entered into the palace

Conjugation

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yoruba

Etymology

Cognates include Nupe fèrè

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fè.ɾè/

Noun

fèrè

1. (music) flute; small type of whistle
2. (soccer) whistle

   Synonym: òfé

3. balloon

   Synonym: bààlúù

Derived terms

• fọn fèrè (“to play the flute; to blow a whistle”)

Source: wiktionary.org