spere
English
Etymology
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Noun
spere (plural speres)
- (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
Anagrams
- prees, peers, Reeps, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, Perse, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, per se, Serpe, perse
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German sperren, from Old High German sperran (“to put up rafters, beams; to barricade”), from sper (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
Verb
spere
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.
Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
spere
- third-person singular future of seprat
- Synonym: sepere
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
Noun
spere f or n
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “spere, sperre”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
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Pronunciation
Noun
spere (plural speres or sperren)
- A spear or lance.
- (Christianity) The Lance of Longinus.
- A barb or point.
- A spearman; a soldier who wields a spear.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “spēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).
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Pronunciation
Noun
spere (plural speres)
- (astronomy) The cosmos, outer space
- A globe or sphere representing outer space.
- (astronomy) The supposed outer sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile.
- sphere, ball, a spherical object.
Descendants
References
- “spẹ̄re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin spera.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
spere (plural speres)
Descendants
- English: spere
References
- “spēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 4
Noun
spere
- Alternative form of sparre
Etymology 5
Verb
spere
- Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, Old High German sper (German Speer), Old Norse spjǫr.
Pronunciation
Noun
spere n (nominative plural speru)
Declension
Descendants
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
spere
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