different between acer vs aker

English

Noun

acer (plural acers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre

Anagrams

• -care, Acre, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acre, care, e-car, race, race-

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin aci?rium, from Latin aci?s, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare French acier, Galician aceiro, Italian acciaio, Occitan acièr, Portuguese aço, Spanish acero.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??se/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?se?/

Noun

acer m (uncountable)

1. steel

Derived terms

• acer inoxidable

Related terms

• acerar

Further reading

• “acer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). The change from o-stem to i-stem declension is irregular and not fully explained. Likewise, Latin has irregular lengthening of the vowel. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (ákros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.ker/, [?ä?k?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.t??er/, [???t???r]

Adjective

?cer (feminine ?cris, neuter ?cre, comparative ?crior, superlative ?cerrimus, adverb ?criter); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. sharp, sour, bitter, pungent
2. keen, sharp, acute, sagacious
3. energetic, active, vigorous
4. eager, zealous, spirited
5. subtle
6. severe, violent, cruel, hot
7. penetrating, piercing

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Same as Etymology 1, with reference to multi-pointed leaves.
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag "ak?er-"

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ker/, [?äk?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.t??er/, [???t???r]

Noun

acer n (genitive aceris); third declension

1. maple tree

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• acernus

Descendants

• Catalan: auró
• Esperanto: acero
• French: érable
• Italian: acero
• Portuguese: ácer
• Romanian: ar?ar
• Spanish: ácere, arce
• Translingual: Acer

References

• acer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Etymology

See acier.

Noun

acer m (nominative singular acers)

1. Alternative form of acier

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle English aker.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?ak?r/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?akar/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ak?r/

Noun

acer f (plural aceri)

1. acre

   Synonyms: cyfair, erw

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “acer”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre

Derived terms

• aker-staf

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Anagrams

• KERA, Kear, Kera, Rake, rake, reak

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *ace?, from *ace- (“male animal”) (compare aketz (“boar”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.ker/

Noun

aker anim

1. he-goat, billy goat

Declension

Related terms

• akelarre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: a?ker
• Rhymes: -a?k?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Latin aquarium.

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (Southern) bucket

   Synonym: emmer

2. (historical) metal well bucket

   Synonym: putemmer

3. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle

Related terms

• aquarium

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akran?.

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (archaic) acorn

Synonyms

• eikel

Etymology 3

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (obsolete) acre

Kabyle

Etymology

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

Verb

aker (intensive aorist yettaker, aorist yaker, preterite yuker, negative preterite yukir)

1. to steal

Middle English

Alternative forms

• acre

Etymology

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?k?r/, /?ak?r/

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. field (piece of arable land)
2. acre (land measure of 160 rods square (though actually varying in size, both regionally and in time), usually described as 40 rods/1 furlong long and 4 rods wide.)

Descendants

• English: acre
  • Norwegian Bokmål: acre
• Scots: acre, aker, acker
• Yola: aager

References

• “?ker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• akker, ?ker (late)

Etymology

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

Noun

aker m

1. field, cultivated land

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: åker

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

aker m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. acre

Vilamovian

Noun

aker m

1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops)