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drier
English
Alternative forms
- dryer
Usage notes
In both British and American English, the spelling drier is preferred for the comparative adjective and dryer for the noun.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?a??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?a??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry +? -er (“agent suffix”).
Noun
drier (plural driers)
- (chiefly Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of dryer
Etymology 2
dry +? -er (“comparative suffix”)
Adjective
drier
- comparative form of dry: more dry
Anagrams
- Rider, direr, reird, rider
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crier
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)
- 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.
- 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94)
- 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)
- 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
- to cry out
- to shout
- 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)
- (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
- 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
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