mear
English Edit
Pronunciation Edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɪ(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
- Homophone: mere
Noun Edit
mear (plural mears)
- Alternative form of mere ("boundary").
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So huge a mind could not in lesser rest,
Ne in small mears contain his glory great
See also Edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams Edit
Dutch Low Saxon Edit
Etymology Edit
Conjunction Edit
mear
Irish Edit
Etymology Edit
Possibly related to English merry and its Germanic cognates.[1]
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
mear (genitive singular masculine mear, genitive singular feminine mire, plural meara, comparative mire)
- quick, fast, nimble, lively, spirited
- precipitate, hasty, rash; quick-tempered, fiery
- Synonym: tobann
- (literary)
Declension Edit
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | mear | mhear | meara; mheara² | |
Vocative | mhear | meara | ||
Genitive | mire | meara | mear | |
Dative | mear; mhear¹ |
mhear; mhear (archaic) |
meara; mheara² | |
Comparative | níos mire | |||
Superlative | is mire |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Verb Edit
mear (present analytic mearann, future analytic mearfaidh, verbal noun mearadh, past participle meartha)
- (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of mearaigh (“derange, distract; bewilder, confuse; excite, infuriate; bother, trouble; become distracted, bewildered; become infuriated”)
Conjugation Edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation Edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mear | mhear | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References Edit
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “mear”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Further reading Edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “mear” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “mear” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Portuguese Edit
Etymology Edit
From Late Latin mediāre, from Latin medius. Compare mediar (a borrowed doublet).
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
mear (first-person singular present meio, first-person singular preterite meei, past participle meado)
- to halve (divide into two)
Conjugation Edit
Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | mear | |||||
Personal | mear | meares | mear | mearmos | meardes | mearem |
Gerund | ||||||
meando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | meado | meados | ||||
Feminine | meada | meadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | meio | meias | meia | meamos | meais | meiam |
Imperfect | meava | meavas | meava | meávamos | meáveis | meavam |
Preterite | meei | measte | meou | meamos1, meámos2 | meastes | mearam |
Pluperfect | meara | mearas | meara | meáramos | meáreis | mearam |
Future | mearei | mearás | meará | mearemos | meareis | mearão |
Conditional | ||||||
mearia | mearias | mearia | mearíamos | mearíeis | meariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | meie | meies | meie | meemos | meeis | meiem |
Imperfect | measse | measses | measse | meássemos | meásseis | meassem |
Future | mear | meares | mear | mearmos | meardes | mearem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | meia | meie | meemos | meai | meiem | |
Negative (não) | não meies | não meie | não meemos | não meeis | não meiem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Related terms Edit
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Latin mēiere, reinterpreted in Vulgar Latin as a first-conjugation verb (*mēiāre). Compare Portuguese mijar and English micturate.
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
mear (first-person singular present meo, first-person singular preterite meé, past participle meado)
- to piss, to pee
- Synonyms: orinar, echar una meada
- (reflexive) to wet, to urinate accidentally in or on
Conjugation Edit
infinitive | mear | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | meando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | meado | meada | |||||
plural | meados | meadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | meo | meastú meásvos |
mea | meamos | meáis | mean | |
imperfect | meaba | meabas | meaba | meábamos | meabais | meaban | |
preterite | meé | measte | meó | meamos | measteis | mearon | |
future | mearé | mearás | meará | mearemos | mearéis | mearán | |
conditional | mearía | mearías | mearía | mearíamos | mearíais | mearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | mee | meestú meésvos2 |
mee | meemos | meéis | meen | |
imperfect (ra) |
meara | mearas | meara | meáramos | mearais | mearan | |
imperfect (se) |
mease | meases | mease | meásemos | measeis | measen | |
future1 | meare | meares | meare | meáremos | meareis | mearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | meatú meávos |
mee | meemos | mead | meen | ||
negative | no mees | no mee | no meemos | no meéis | no meen |
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive mear | |||||||
dative | mearme | mearte | mearle, mearse | mearnos | mearos | mearles, mearse | |
accusative | mearme | mearte | mearlo, mearla, mearse | mearnos | mearos | mearlos, mearlas, mearse | |
with gerund meando | |||||||
dative | meándome | meándote | meándole, meándose | meándonos | meándoos | meándoles, meándose | |
accusative | meándome | meándote | meándolo, meándola, meándose | meándonos | meándoos | meándolos, meándolas, meándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative mea | |||||||
dative | méame | méate | méale | méanos | not used | méales | |
accusative | méame | méate | méalo, méala | méanos | not used | méalos, méalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative meá | |||||||
dative | meame | meate | meale | meanos | not used | meales | |
accusative | meame | meate | mealo, meala | meanos | not used | mealos, mealas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative mee | |||||||
dative | méeme | not used | méele, méese | méenos | not used | méeles | |
accusative | méeme | not used | méelo, méela, méese | méenos | not used | méelos, méelas | |
with first-person plural imperative meemos | |||||||
dative | not used | meémoste | meémosle | meémonos | meémoos | meémosles | |
accusative | not used | meémoste | meémoslo, meémosla | meémonos | meémoos | meémoslos, meémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative mead | |||||||
dative | meadme | not used | meadle | meadnos | meaos | meadles | |
accusative | meadme | not used | meadlo, meadla | meadnos | meaos | meadlos, meadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative meen | |||||||
dative | méenme | not used | méenle | méennos | not used | méenles, méense | |
accusative | méenme | not used | méenlo, méenla | méennos | not used | méenlos, méenlas, méense |
Derived terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “mear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
West Frisian Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Cognate with Dutch meer. Also compare the native form mar (“lake”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
mear c (plural mearen, diminutive mearke)
Further reading Edit
“mear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2 Edit
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō.
Determiner Edit
mear
Adverb Edit
mear
- To a greater degree or extent, more
- Used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs where -er cannot be used.
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
“mear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011