different between borne vs unbearably

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

1. 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. […] ”

Adjective

borne (not comparable)

1. 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.

   • 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.

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)

1. bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
2. territorial boundary marker
3. territorial or geographical border
4. milestone such as those alongside a roadway
5. (slang) a kilometre
6. mark

   dépasser les bornes

   cross the mark

7. 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

8. machine

   borne libre service

   self-service machine

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)

1. (Jersey) boundary stone

English

Etymology

unbearable +? -ly

Adverb

unbearably (comparative more unbearably, superlative most unbearably)

1. In an unbearable manner, not bearably, in a way unable to be borne

Translations