different between glore vs glome

English

Etymology

From Middle English gloren. Cognate with German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”). Related to glare.

Verb

glore (third-person singular simple present glores, present participle gloring, simple past and past participle glored)

1. (archaic) to glare
2. (archaic) to glower

Anagrams

• Rogel, ogler, relog

Latin

Noun

gl?re

1. ablative singular of gl?s

Old French

Alternative forms

• gloire
• glorie

Etymology

Latin gloria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?.r?/
• Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

glore f (oblique plural glores, nominative singular glore, nominative plural glores)

1. glory

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem