different between crier vs trier

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

Etymology

try +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?a??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

trier (plural triers)

1. One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
   • 1670, Robert Boyle, Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air

     ingenious trier

2. An instrument used for sampling something.
   • 2009, Stephanie Clark, Michael Costello, Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)

     The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample.

3. One who tries judicially.
4. (law) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.

Derived terms

• trier of fact
• cheese trier

Anagrams

• Riter, Terri

French

Etymology

From Middle French trier, from Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), from Gallo-Romance *triare (“to pick out”), a variant of Late Latin tr?t?, tr?t?re, from Latin tr?tus, the past participle of ter?. The word sense originates from granum terere, to beat the corn from the chaff, or trier le grain in modern French, hence the meaning. Italian tritare keeps both senses of the word - to grind and to sort - confirming a common Romance origin. For loss of medial "t" see abbaye.

Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), is a false cognate of Germanic origin.

Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”), Catalan triar (“to pick, choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.je/

Verb

trier

1. to sort, to sort out

   Trier le tas de lettres.

   Sort (out) the pile of letters.

2. to grade; to calibrate

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trier sur le volet (“to handpick, to carefully select”)
• triage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tirer

Old French

Etymology

Disputed; see English try.

Verb

trier

1. to choose; to select
2. to sort
3. to find
4. to verify; to make sure of
5. (law) to try (in court)
6. to pull

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: try
• French: trier

References

• trier on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trier)