different between laurer vs lauter

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

English

Etymology

From German lauter (“pure, clear”, adjective). Began to become common in English in the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /la?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /la?t?(?)/

Adjective

lauter (not comparable)

1. (brewing, of mash, only attributive) Clear.
   • 1905, Pure Products, volume 1, page 176:

     The practice in the Munich brewery made it plain that the object of the drawing off of the thick mash is to completely separate the thick mash from the lauter mash.

   • 1992, Eric Warner, German Wheat Beer ?ISBN:

     Since the husks and coarse grits are essential for distancing grist particles from one another in the lauter mash, their diminished presence in wheat beer worts will impede the lautering process.

   • 2003, Gregory J. Noonan, New Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book ?ISBN:

     The thin lauter mash is quickly transferred to the tun, given a last thorough stirring, and allowed to settle.

Verb

lauter (third-person singular simple present lauters, present participle lautering, simple past and past participle lautered)

1. (brewing, transitive) To subject to lautering.

References

Anagrams

• Tulare, at-rule, uretal, uteral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??t?/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German l?ter, from Old High German hl?ttar, from Proto-Germanic *hl?traz. Compare Dutch louter (German in form), Gothic ???????????????????????? (hl?trs).

Adjective

lauter (comparative lauterer or lautrer, superlative am lautersten)

1. (formal) sincere; honorable; of integrity; correct

2. (formal, literary, most often of metal) genuine; pure

3. (colloquial, uninflected, not comparable) a lot of; a bunch of; much; many; several

Declension

Synonyms

• (sincere): aufrichtig; ehrenhaft
• (genuine): echt
• (a lot): eine Menge; etliche; einige; viel; alle möglichen

Derived terms

• Lauterkeit
• läutern
• unlauter

Adverb

lauter

1. (formal) in a sincere, honorable, correct manner; with integrity

2. (colloquial) just; only; exclusively; often best translated with all

Usage notes

• It is somewhat arbitrary to separate the sense “a lot, a bunch” (see the adjective) from the sense “exclusively, only” (adverb). Both often overlap and are not explicitly distinct in their construction. The distinction uninflected adjective versus adverb has been chosen here for simplicity, that is because the German synonyms and English translations tend to be of the respective parts of speech. — It may be well possible to analyse both senses as either adjectives or adverbs.

Synonyms

• ausschließlich
• lediglich
• nur
• alles

Etymology 2

Adjective

lauter

1. comparative degree of laut

Adjective

lauter

1. inflection of laut:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Further reading

• “lauter” in Duden online
• “lauter” in Duden online