different between laurel vs laurer

English

Etymology

From Middle English lorrer, Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from lor, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.?l/, /?l???.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.?l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Noun

laurel (countable and uncountable, plural laurels)

1. Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
2. A crown of laurel.
3. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.

   to win laurels; to crown with laurels

4. (botany) Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
5. (botany) Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

laurel (third-person singular simple present laurels, present participle laureling or laurelling, simple past and past participle laureled or laurelled)

1. (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
2. (transitive) To enwreathe.
3. (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.

See also

• Laurel and Hardy

References

• laurel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allure

Spanish

Etymology

Via Old Occitan laurier, ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau??el/, [lau???el]

Noun

laurel m (plural laureles)

1. (botany) laurel

Derived terms

• dormirse en los laureles
• laurel alejandrino
• laurel cerezo
• laurel real
• laurel rosa

Related terms

• laurear

French

Etymology

From the Latin laurus + -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.?e/
• Homophones: laurai, lauré, laurée, laurées, laurés, laurez

Verb

laurer

1. To crown, or decorate, with laurels

Conjugation

Anagrams

• rural, leurra

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lorrer

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lorer (Old French lorier) from Vulgar Latin *laurarius from Latin laurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?r?r/, /?lau?r?r/

Noun

laurer (plural laurers)

1. laurel
   • Circa 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, lines 44-45

     With his tryumphe and laurer-corouned thus,

     In al the flour of Fortunes yevynge

Descendants

• English: laurel
• Scots: laurie

Further reading

• laurer on the Middle English Dictionary