different between borne vs forne
borne
English
Etymology
From Old English boren, ?eboren, past participle of beran.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??n/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo(?)?n/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo?n/
- Homophone: born (accents with the horse–hoarse merger); bawn (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Verb
borne
- past participle of bear
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict, chapter 21:
- “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict, chapter 21:
Adjective
borne (not comparable)
- carried, supported.
- 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
- 1881 Oscar Wilde, "Rome Unvisited", Poems, page 44:
- When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
- When, bright with purple and with gold,
- c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II:
- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
- 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Boner, Breon, Ebron, boner
French
Etymology
From Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??n/
Noun
borne f (plural bornes)
- bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
- territorial boundary marker
- territorial or geographical border
- milestone such as those alongside a roadway
- (slang) a kilometre
- mark
- dépasser les bornes
- cross the mark
- dépasser les bornes
- limit of a list or of an interval
- Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
- Pick a number between 0 and 100, inclusive
- les lettres comprises entre A et D (bornes incluses)
- alphabetic characters from A to D
- Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
- machine
- borne libre service
- self-service machine
- borne libre service
Derived terms
- borne d'incendie
- borne électrique
- borne kilométrique
- borné
- borner
- borne-fontaine
- borne-abreuvoir
- dépasser les bornes
- radioborne
Further reading
- “borne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN
Norman
Etymology
From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish.
Noun
borne f (plural bornes)
- (Jersey) boundary stone
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forne
English
Etymology
From Middle English, variation of Middle English ferne (“old, long ago, distant, past”), from Old English fyrn (“former, ancient”), from Proto-Germanic *furnaz, *fernaz, *firnijaz (“old, former”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“next, of, out, through”). More at fern.
Adjective
forne (comparative more forne, superlative most forne)
- (obsolete) Former.
- 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmatum opus (originally by Erasmus)
- The Camel's hous; whiche it is saied that a certain king / In forne yeares, when he had on a Dromedarie Camele escaped the handes of his enemies, builded there.
- 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmatum opus (originally by Erasmus)
Anagrams
- Freon, freon, orfen
Latin
Noun
forne
- vocative singular of fornus
Swedish
Adjective
forne
- absolute definite natural masculine form of forn.
Anagrams
- eforn, fenor
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