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fere

See also: fêre

English

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Etymology 1

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From (Northumbrian) Old English fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra (whence also Middle English y-fere).

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Noun

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fere (plural feres)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.
  2. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
      And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.
    • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind:
      The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
    • 1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story:
      What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.
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Etymology 2

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Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

Adjective

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fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

  1. (obsolete) Fierce.

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Aromanian

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Preposition

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fere

  1. Alternative form of fãrã.
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Galician

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Verb

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fere

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ferir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ferir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *feros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-o- (“tight, close by”), a derivative of *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

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Note: this frequent and colloquial word normally undergoes iambic shortening of the last syllable in Plautus, but is kept long in Classical dactylic verse for archaic effect; it becomes short again in Late Latin.

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ferē̆ (not comparable)

  1. (close enough) roughly, approximately, mostly, more or less, around, about
    Synonym: fermē
    sōlis ferē̆ occāsū
    around sundown
    • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 1.6.2:
      haec habēbam ferē̆ quae tē scīre vellem
      this is more or less everything I wanted to tell you
  2. (indistinguishable from) nearly, practically, virtually, almost, well-nigh, quite
    Synonyms: fermē, prope, paene, iū̆xtā
    haud ferē̆ quisquam
    hardly anybody
  3. (in general) often, normally, usually, generally, as a rule, in most cases, mainly
    Synonyms: fermē, plērumque, vulgō
    ut ferē̆ fit
    as often happens; as usual
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Etymology 2

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From for.

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Verb

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fēre

  1. Alternative form of fēris, second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

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  • “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    • (ambiguous) synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    • (ambiguous) to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    • (ambiguous) as usually happens: ut fit, ita ut fit, ut fere fit
    • (ambiguous) he spoke (very much) as follows: haec (fere) dixit
    • (ambiguous) this is very much what Cicero said: haec Ciceronis fere

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English fǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *fāru, from Proto-Germanic *fērō.

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Noun

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fere (plural feris)

  1. fear
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  • English: fear
  • Scots: fere, feir
  • Yola: vear
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Etymology 2

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From Old English feorh, from Proto-West Germanic *ferh, from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz.

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fere (uncountable)

  1. life

Norman

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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fere

  1. (Sark) to iron

Nupe

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Etymology

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Compare Yoruba fèrè.

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Noun

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fèrè (plural fèrèzhì)

  1. small whistle; flute

Old English

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fēre

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fēran

Old French

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Verb

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fere

  1. Alternative form of faire

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of fere (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive fere avoir fet
gerund en fesant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle fesant
past participle fet
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present faz, fe fes fet femes, fesons fetes font
imperfect fesoie, feseie fesoies, feseies fesoit, feseit fesiiens, fesiens fesiiez, fesiez fesoient, feseient
preterite fis feṣis fist feṣimes feṣistes firent
future ferai feras fera ferons feroiz, fereiz, ferez feront
conditional feroie, fereie feroies, fereies feroit, fereit feriiens, feriens feriiez, feriez feroient, fereient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present face faces face faciens, façons faciez facent
imperfect feṣisse feṣisses feṣist feṣissons, feṣissiens feṣissoiz, feṣissez, feṣissiez feṣissent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— fa — femes, fesons fetes —

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  • Hyphenation: fe‧re

Verb

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fere

  1. inflection of ferir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Ternate

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Kadato Sultan

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fere (Jawi فيري)

  1. (intransitive) to ascend
  2. (intransitive, transitive) to climb
  3. (intransitive, of the Sultan's palace) to go, go to, enter
    ana ifere toma kadato ― they entered into the palace

Conjugation

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Conjugation of fere
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofere fofere mifere
2nd nofere nifere
3rd Masculine ofere ifere, yofere†
Feminine mofere
Neuter ifere
† - archaic

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yoruba

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Fèrè (1)
 
Fèrè tó ń léfòó lójú omi (3)

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Cognates include Nupe fèrè

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Noun

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fèrè

  1. (music) flute; small type of whistle
  2. (soccer) whistle
    Synonym: òfé
  3. balloon
    Synonym: bààlúù

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