different between crier vs prier

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

English

Alternative forms

• pryer

Etymology

From pry +? -er.

Noun

prier (plural priers)

1. A person who pries.

Anagrams

• Perri, irrep, riper

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *per(i)-era, a prefixal verb, cognate to Hittite [Term?] (/arnumi/, “to move, to shift”), Sanskrit ????? (??óti, “to arise, to move”), Ancient Greek ?????? (órnumi, “to stir up”), Latin orior (“to rise”).

Verb

prier (first-person singular past tense prora, participle prierë)

1. I incline, lean, turn aside

Related terms

• pjerr

References

French

Etymology

From Old French proiier, preier, from Latin prec?r?, present active infinitive of precor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.je/

Verb

prier

1. (transitive) to pray
2. (transitive) to beg, to beseech, to pray to

   Vous devez prier Dieu. You must pray to God.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• prière

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• périr, riper

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French proiier, from Latin precari, present active infinitive of precor.

Verb

prier

1. to pray
2. to implore; to beg; to beseech

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: prier

Norman

Etymology

From Old French proiier, from Latin precor, prec?r?, from prex (“request, petition, prayer”), from Proto-Indo-European *pre?-, *per?- (“to ask, woo”).

Verb

prier

1. (Jersey, religion) to pray

Old French

Verb

prier

1. Alternative form of proiier

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin (mensis) Apr?lis. Compare Aromanian aprir, prir, prilj, Albanian prill. Doublet of aprilie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?prjer/

Noun

prier m (uncountable)

1. (popular/folk usage) April (fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

Synonyms

• aprilie (standard/most common)