parer
English
Etymology
From pare + -er.
Noun
parer (plural parers)
- A tool used to pare things.
- (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
- 2013 December 6, Russell W. Belk; Linda Price; Lisa Penaloza, Consumer Culture Theory, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
- A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.
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Anagrams
- Raper, raper
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin parēre. Displaced as a verb by the doublet parèixer (“to seem”); compare Spanish parecer (“to seem; opinion”). Also compare Friulian parè, Italian parere, Romanian părere.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /pəˈɾə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /pəˈɾɛ/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /paˈɾeɾ/
Noun
parer m (plural parers)
- view, opinion
- segons el meu parer ― in my opinion
- 2003, Ferran Grau Codina, La Universitat de València i l’humanisme: Studia humanitatis i renovació cultural a Europa i el nou món, Universidad de Valencia, →ISBN, page 431:
- Encara que el Papa Pau III era del mateix parer, tot i això, l'emperador imposà el seu criteri.
- Although Pope Paul III was of the same view, the emperor nevertheless imposed his own opinion.
- 2021 April 14, Cristian Segura, “Ada Colau i Twitter: el risc d’unes xarxes socials massa personals”, in El País:
- La prova, segons el seu parer, és que l'alcaldessa no ha tancat encara el compte de Twitter.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Further reading
- “parer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “parer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “parer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “parer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin parāre, present active infinitive of parō, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ʁe/
- Homophones: parai, paré, parée, parées, parés, parez
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Verb
parer
- to adorn; to bedeck
- Paré de fleurs. ― Adorned with flowers.
- to fend off
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, “Act 2, Scene 7”, in Horace:
- Ce n'est qu'en fuyant qu'on pare de tels coups.
- Only by fleeing may one fend off such blows.
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- (fencing) to parry
- (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)
Conjugation
Conjugation of parer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | parer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | parant /pa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | paré /pa.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pare /paʁ/ | pares /paʁ/ | pare /paʁ/ | parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/ | parez /pa.ʁe/ | parent /paʁ/ |
| imperfect | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ | parait /pa.ʁɛ/ | parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/ | pariez /pa.ʁje/ | paraient /pa.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | parai /pa.ʁe/ | paras /pa.ʁa/ | para /pa.ʁa/ | parâmes /pa.ʁam/ | parâtes /pa.ʁat/ | parèrent /pa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | parerai /pa.ʁə.ʁe/ | pareras /pa.ʁə.ʁa/ | parera /pa.ʁə.ʁa/ | parerons /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | parerez /pa.ʁə.ʁe/ | pareront /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | parerait /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | parerions /pa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pareriez /pa.ʁə.ʁje/ | pareraient /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pare /paʁ/ | pares /paʁ/ | pare /paʁ/ | parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/ | pariez /pa.ʁje/ | parent /paʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | parasse /pa.ʁas/ | parasses /pa.ʁas/ | parât /pa.ʁa/ | parassions /pa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | parassiez /pa.ʁa.sje/ | parassent /pa.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pare /paʁ/ | — | parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/ | parez /pa.ʁe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- déparer
- pare-balles
- pare-boue
- pare-brise
- pare-chocs
- pare-feu
- parer à
- parer au plus pressé
- pare-soleil
Related terms
- comparer
- préparer
- réparer
- séparer
- sevrer
Further reading
- “parer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- râper
Interlingua
Verb
parer
- to seem, appear to be
Conjugation
Conjugation of parer
| infinitive | parer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| participle | present | perfect | |
| parente | parite | ||
| active | simple | perfect | |
| present | pare | ha parite | |
| past | pareva | habeva parite | |
| future | parera | habera parite | |
| conditional | parerea | haberea parite | |
| imperative | pare | ||
Derived terms
- disparer
Latin
Verb
parer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of parō
Venetian
Alternative forms
- parare
Etymology
From Latin parēre, present active infinitive of pāreō (“I appear, I am visible, apparent”).
Verb
parer
- (transitive) to seem (look like)
Conjugation
- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of parer (second conjugation)
| infinitive | parer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | paréndo | |||
| past participle | parato | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| present | paro | (te) pari | (el/ła) pare | parémo | parì | (i/łe) pare |
| imperfect | paréa | (te) parivi | (el/ła) paréa | parévimo | parivi | (i/łe) paréa |
| future | pararò | (te) pararè | (el/ła) pararà | pararémo | pararè | (i/łe) pararà |
| conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| present | pararìa | (te) pararisi | (el/ła) pararìa | pararìsimo | pararisi | (i/łe) pararìa |
| subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
| present | para | (te) pari | (el/ła) para | parémo | parì | (i/łe) para |
| imperfect | parése | (te) parisi | (el/ła) parése | parésimo | parisi | (i/łe) parése |
| imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| — | (te) pari | (el/ła) para | parémo | parì | (i/łe) para | |