different between hyphenate vs seer

English

Etymology

hyphen +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??f(?)ne?t/

Verb

hyphenate (third-person singular simple present hyphenates, present participle hyphenating, simple past and past participle hyphenated)

1. (transitive) to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
2. (transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hyphenate (plural hyphenates)

1. A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
2. A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
   • 2006, Nick Adams, Making Friends With Black People (page 15)

     We seem to have settled on African-American, and at first glance it certainly does seem logical. […] Not to mention what happens when hyphenates marry other hyphenates and have baby hyphenates.

Synonyms

• person

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)/, /si??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -i??(?)
• Homophones: cere, sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
2. One who sees something; an eyewitness.

Related terms

• seeress

Translations

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SERE, eres, rees, rese, sere

Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se??r/, [?se???]
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

Further reading

• seer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sêer

1. painful, sore
2. sick

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêre

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sair?.

Noun

sêer n

1. pain, ache
2. sorrow, emotional pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Further reading

• “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?ar.

Noun

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sér.

Adjective

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +? -er

Noun

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

See also

• sjåar (Nynorsk)

References

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ser

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.e?/

Verb

seer

1. to be

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: ser
• Portuguese: ser

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?. As time passed, it merged with ser (“to be”), from Latin sum (“to be”).

Verb

seer

1. to be
2. to sit

See also

• eseyente