lare
See also: Lare, larë, and lāre
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Homophones: lair, layer
Etymology 1
See lore.
Noun
lare
- (obsolete) lore; learning
Etymology 2
See lair
Noun
lare (plural lares)
- (obsolete) pasture; feed
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- More hard for hungry steed t 'abstaine from pleasant lare
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Verb
lare (third-person singular simple present lares, present participle laring, simple past and past participle lared)
- (obsolete) To feed; to fatten
Noun
lare (plural lares)
- Obsolete form of lair.
Anagrams
- Arel, Earl, Elar, Lear, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lear, rale, real
French
Etymology
From Latin Lar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laʁ/
Noun
lare m (plural lares)
- (Roman mythology) Lar
- Synonym: pénates
Further reading
- “lare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Javanese
Noun
lare
- Dated spelling of laré. Romanization of ꦭꦫꦺ.
Latin
Noun
lare
- vocative singular of larus
- ablative singular of lār
Middle English
Noun
lare
- Alternative form of lore
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *laizō. Cognates include Old English lār and Old Saxon lēra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaːre/
Noun
lāre f
- teaching, doctrine
Descendants
- Saterland Frisian: Leere
- West Frisian: leare
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN