different between caller vs crier

English

Etymology

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?l?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?k?l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(r)
• Homophone: collar (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Noun

caller (plural callers)

1. (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.

   - I've got someone on the line.

   - Who's the caller?

2. A visitor.

   a gentleman caller

3. (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
4. (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
5. A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
6. (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.

Derived terms

• caller ID

Translations

Anagrams

• cellar, re-call, recall

Scots

Etymology

Alteration of calver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l?r/

Adjective

caller (comparative mair caller, superlative maist caller)

1. Fresh (of food, especially fish).

   Wha'll buy my caller herrin’, / New drawn frae the Forth? (Caroline Oliphaunt, ‘Caller Herrin'’)

2. Cool.

English

Alternative forms

• cryer (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English cryer, criour, from Old French crieor (Modern French crieur), derived from the verb crier. Synchronically analyzable as cry +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kra??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kra??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

crier (plural criers)

1. One who cries.
   • 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94)

     Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.

2. An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.

Translations

Anagrams

• IRCer, ricer

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• crieru, criel, crielu

Etymology

Probably from Latin cerebrum through a Vulgar Latin root *crebrum or possibly from the diminutive form cerebellum through a root *crebellum (compare the variant form, also found in Megleno-Romanian, which seems to still preserve the -l-). Compare Romanian creier.

Noun

crier m (plural crieri)

1. brain

Synonyms

• mãduã / midulj

French

Etymology

From Middle French crier, from Old French crier, crider, from Medieval Latin cr?d?re (“to clamour, cry out, publish, proclaim”) (compare Spanish gritar, Occitan and Catalan cridar, Italian gridare). Perhaps from Latin quir?t? (“to shriek, wail”) (--Diez), or from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry out, shout, proclaim”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Akin to Middle Dutch cr?ten, kr?ten (Dutch krijten (“to cry, cry out”)), Middle Low German krîten (“to shriek, cry out”), Middle High German kr?zen (“to cry out loudly”) (German kreißen (“to wail in childbirth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i.je/

Verb

crier

1. to cry out
2. to shout
3. to creak

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• cri
• criailler
• criard
• crieur
• décrier

Further reading

• “crier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cirer

Norman

Etymology

From Old French crier, from Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to clamour, cry out, publish, proclaim”).

Verb

crier (gerund criethie)

1. (Jersey) to shout

Old French

Alternative forms

• crïer (some scholars use a diaeresis)
• crider (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th century manuscripts)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to clamour, cry out, publish, proclaim”), from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry out, shout, proclaim”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Akin to Middle Dutch cr?ten, kr?ten (Dutch krijten (“to cry, cry out”)), Middle Low German krîten (“to shriek, cry out”), Middle High German kr?zen (“to cry out loudly”) (German kreißen (“to wail in childbirth”).

Verb

crier

1. to cry out; to shout

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• ? English: cry
• French: crier

See also

• plorer