dare
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɛə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
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Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
VerbEdit
dare (third-person singular simple present dare or dares or (archaic) dast, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared or (archaic) durst)
- (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- I wouldn't dare (to) argue with my boss.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- The fellow dares not deceive me.
- 1832, Thomas Macaulay, Parliamentary Reform
- Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
- (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- I dare you to kiss that girl.
- (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- Will you dare death to reach your goal?
- 1886, Clarence King, article in The Century
- To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
- (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
- c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
- For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.
- (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- dare us, like larks
Usage notesEdit
- Dare is a semimodal verb. When used as an auxiliary, the speaker can choose whether to use do-support and the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go", "I dare not go", "I didn't dare (to) go", and "I dared not go" are all correct. Similarly "Dare you go?", "Do you dare (to) go?", "Dared you go?", and "Did you dare (to) go?" are all correct. When not an auxiliary verb, it is different: "I dared him to do it." usually is not written as "I dared him do it.", and "Did you dare him to do it?" is almost never written as "Dared you him do it?"
- In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
- Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, "daren’t" is used occasionally in ordinary past time contexts (Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself).
- Rare regional forms dassn't and dasn't also exists in the present tense and archaic forms dursn't and durstn't in the past tense.
- The expression dare say, used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt daresay.
- Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit
dare (plural dares)
- A challenge to prove courage.
- The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- It lends a lustre […] / A large dare to our great enterprise.
- Defiance; challenge.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enough to part our powers.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
- When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English, from Old English darian.
VerbEdit
dare (third-person singular simple present dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared)
- (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [16thc.]
- (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16thc.]
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
dare (plural dares)
- A small fish, the dace[1]
- 1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:
- The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ dare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
AnagramsEdit
Crimean TatarEdit
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InterjectionEdit
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò, first-person singular past historic dièdi or diédi or détti or (traditional) dètti, past participle dàto, first-person singular future darò, first-person singular subjunctive dìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi, second-person singular imperative dài or dà', auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to give (to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else)
- to yield, to bear, to produce, to return
- (ditransitive) to name, to call, to refer to [+ del (object)] [+ al (object)]
- Il bue che dà del cornuto all’asino ― The ox who calls the donkey horned
Usage notesEdit
- The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | dàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | dàndo | |||
present participle | dànte | past participle | dàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | dò1 | dài | dà1,2 | diàmo | dàte | dànno |
imperfect | dàvo | dàvi | dàva | davàmo | davàte | dàvano |
past historic | dièdi, diédi, détti, dètti3 | désti | diède, diéde, détte, dètte3 | démmo | déste | dièdero, diédero, déttero, dèttero3 |
future | darò | darài | darà | darémo | daréte | darànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | darèi | darésti | darèbbe, darébbe | darémmo | daréste | darèbbero, darébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | dìa | dìa | dìa | diàmo | diàte | dìano |
imperfect | déssi | déssi | désse | déssimo | déste | déssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
dài, dà' | dìa | diàmo | dàte | dìano | ||
negative imperative | non dàre | non dìa | non diàmo | non dàte | non dìano |
1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
2With written accent on monosyllabic verb.
3Traditional.
Including lesser-used forms:
infinitive | dàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | dàndo | |||
present participle | dànte | past participle | dàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | dò1 | dài | dà1,2 | diàmo | dàte | dànno |
imperfect | dàvo | dàvi | dàva | davàmo | davàte | dàvano |
past historic | dièdi, diédi, détti, dètti4 | désti | diède, diéde, détte, dètte4, diè5 | démmo | déste | dièdero, diédero, déttero, dèttero4, dièro5 |
future | darò | darài | darà | darémo | daréte | darànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | darèi | darésti | darèbbe, darébbe | darémmo | daréste | darèbbero, darébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | dìa | dìa | dìa | diàmo | diàte | dìano |
imperfect | déssi | déssi | désse | déssimo | déste | déssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
dài, dà', dà1,2,3 | dìa | diàmo | dàte | dìano | ||
negative imperative | non dàre | non dìa | non diàmo | non dàte | non dìano |
1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
2With written accent on monosyllabic verb.
3Disused.
4Traditional.
5Poetic.
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
dare m (plural dari)
AnagramsEdit
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RomanizationEdit
dare
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dare
- inflection of dō:
LeoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).
VerbEdit
dare
- to give
ReferencesEdit
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
dare ? (plural dares)
SynonymsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
dare f (plural dări)
DeclensionEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
dȃr (Cyrillic spelling да̑р)
SlovakEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dare m
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
dare
- to give
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West MakianEdit
EtymologyEdit
May be related to Ternate doro.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dare
- (transitive) to fall (from a height)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of dare (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tadare | madare | adare | |
2nd person | nadare | fadare | ||
3rd person | inanimate | idare | dadare | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nadare, dare | fadare, dare |
ReferencesEdit
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics
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