pore
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA(key): /pɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA(key): /pɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA(key): /po(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /poə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Noun edit
pore (plural pores)
- A tiny opening in the skin.
- Synonym: sweat hole
- I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
- By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
- the pores of a rock.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.
Verb edit
pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)
- To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
- To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
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Anagrams edit
Cornish edit
Noun edit
pore
- Hard mutation of bore.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)
- pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
Inflection edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pore
- bubble (gas bubble in water)
- Synonym: kupla
- area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
- (slang) speed (recreational amphetamine drug)
Declension edit
Inflection of pore (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pore | poreet | ||
genitive | poreen | poreiden poreitten | ||
partitive | poretta | poreita | ||
illative | poreeseen | poreisiin poreihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pore | poreet | ||
accusative | nom. | pore | poreet | |
gen. | poreen | |||
genitive | poreen | poreiden poreitten | ||
partitive | poretta | poreita | ||
inessive | poreessa | poreissa | ||
elative | poreesta | poreista | ||
illative | poreeseen | poreisiin poreihin | ||
adessive | poreella | poreilla | ||
ablative | poreelta | poreilta | ||
allative | poreelle | poreille | ||
essive | poreena | poreina | ||
translative | poreeksi | poreiksi | ||
abessive | poreetta | poreitta | ||
instructive | — | porein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pore”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ/
- Homophones: porc, port
Noun edit
pore m (plural pores)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun edit
pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
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References edit
- “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun edit
pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun edit
pore oblique singular, m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)
- pore (small opening in skin)
Venetian edit
Adjective edit
pore f
Yanomamö edit
Noun edit
pore
- a type of ghost, apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages
References edit
- Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN