different between lore vs learn

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: l?r, IPA^(key): /lo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /lo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: law (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lore, from Old English l?r, from Proto-West Germanic *lai?u, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.

Noun

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

1. All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

   the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;

     They heare him not, they have forgot his lore

     But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

2. The backstory created around a fictional universe.
3. (obsolete) Workmanship.
   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,

     About the which two serpents weren wound;

     Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,

     And by the tailes together firmely bound […]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).

Noun

lore (plural lores)

1. (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
2. (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Derived terms

• lored

Etymology 3

Verb

lore

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
3. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lese

Anagrams

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, role, rôle

Basque

Etymology

From Latin flos, florem.

Noun

lore inan

1. flower

Declension

Ido

Etymology

From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +? -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo.re/, /?l?.??/

Adverb

lore

1. (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time

Related terms

• lora (“then, now”)

See also

• ita (“that (person)”)
• ito (“that (thing)”)
• iti (“that (plural)”)
• pro ito (“therefore”)
• ibe (“there”)
• tala (“such kind of”)
  • tale (“thus”)
• tanta (“so much”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English l?r, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?. Compare Middle Low German lêre, lêr, Middle High German l?re, Middle Dutch lere, Old Frisian l?re.

Alternative forms

• loore, lare, lar, layre, loare, lere, leyre, leore, lære

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /la?r(?)/
• IPA^(key): /l??r(?)/

Noun

lore (plural lores or loren)

2. education, tutoring, mentoring; learning; the absorption of knowledge
3. lore, knowledge, information, especially:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

   1. (religion) religious beliefs, doctrine, orthodoxy
   2. area of study, subject, topic, science
   3. (rare) The foundations of a subject; the collected works on a topic.
4. recommendation, suggestion, tip; admonition, exhortation, pleading
5. A moral code; standards of conduct; a way of acting, standard.
6. A demand, order, or task
7. (rare) knowledge, aptitude, competence
8. (rare) significance, value, importance
9. (rare) tale, narrative

Derived terms

• larðewe
• larew
• larspel
• loresman
• lorfadyr
• lorþeine

Descendants

• English: lore
• Scots: lare, lair

References

• “l?r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Etymology 2

From Old English lor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??r(?)/

Noun

lore

2. loss (losing something)
3. loss (having soldiers killed in battle)
4. ruin, destruction, injury.

Descendants

• English: lore

References

• “l?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Tarantino

Adjective

lore m (possessive, plural)

1. theirs

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lûn, IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (General American) enPR: lûrn, IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian (“to acquire knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *liznan?. Cognate with German lernen (“to learn”).

Verb

learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or (chiefly UK) learnt)

1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Every day I learn more about this great city.

2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.

3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.

4. To study.

5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• See other, dated and regional, sense of learn below.

Synonyms

• study

Antonyms

• forget
• teach

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

learn (plural learns)

1. The act of learning something

Etymology 2

Possibly related to Middle English leren, from Old English l?ran (“to teach, instruct, indoctrinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *lai?ijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijan? (“to teach”), from *laiz? (“lore, teaching", literally, "track, trace”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to track, furrow”).

Cognate with Scots lere, leir, Saterland Frisian leere, West Frisian leare, Dutch leren, German lehren, Swedish lära. See also lear, lore. But normally the Middle English word would give lere, not learn.

Verb

learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt)

1. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.

   Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.

   • circa 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I Scene 5:

     Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?

   • 1993, The Simpsons, (18 Feb. 1993) Lisa's thoughts:

     That'll learn him to bust my tomater.

Usage notes

Now often considered non-standard.

Derived terms

• learned

Related terms

• larn
• lore

References

• learn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• learn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913..
• Family Word Finder, Readers Digest Association Inc. NY 1975

Anagrams

• Laren, Larne, laner, neral, renal

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• learnan (Timau)

Etymology

From Old High German lern?n, lirn?n, from Proto-Germanic *liznan?. Compare German lernen, English learn, Dutch leren.

Verb

learn

1. (Sappada, Sauris) to learn

References

• “learn” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Scots

Etymology

From Old English leornian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?rn/

Verb

learn (third-person singular present learns, present participle learnin, past learnt, past participle learnt)

1. To learn.
2. To teach.