spere
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
spere (plural speres)
- (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
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Alemannic GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
VerbEdit
spere
ReferencesEdit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
NounEdit
spere f or n
InflectionEdit
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DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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 EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
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NounEdit
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.
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “spēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).
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NounEdit
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.
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “spẹ̄re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 3Edit
From Medieval Latin spera.
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NounEdit
spere (plural speres)
DescendantsEdit
- English: spere
ReferencesEdit
- “spēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
spere
- Alternative form of sparre
Etymology 5Edit
VerbEdit
spere
- Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
spere n (nominative plural speoru)
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RomanianEdit
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VerbEdit
spere