different between meagre vs meare

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)
• Hyphenation: mea?gre

Etymology 1

From Middle French maigre.

Noun

meagre (plural meagres)

1. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
   • 1986, A. Wysoki?ski, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48,

     Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .

   • 2008, Arturo Morales-Muñes, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, 11: Twenty Thousand Years of Fishing in the Strait, Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson (editors), Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective, page 261,

     It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.

   • 2011, John S. Lucas, Paul C. Southgate, Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants, unnumbered page,

     Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.

Synonyms

• (Argyrosomus regius): salmon-basse, shade-fish, stone basse

Hypernyms

• (fish of family Sciaenidae): croaker, drum, drumfish, hardhead, sciaenid

Derived terms

• brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Translations

Further reading

• Argyrosomus regius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argyrosomus regius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Argyrosomus regius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós. Cognate with Old English mæ?er (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

Alternative forms

• meager (US)

Adjective

meagre (comparative meagrer, superlative meagrest) (British spelling) (Canadian spelling, common)

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 1, 1843, William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer (notes), Charles Symmons (life), The Dramatic Works and Poems, Volume 2, page 462,

     […] meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:

2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

   Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate

   • 1871, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Volume 1, page 144,

     His education had been but meagre.
3. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Derived terms

• meagrely
• meagreness

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: mawga

Translations

Verb

meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)

1. (transitive) To make lean.
   • 1862, Robert Thomas Wilson, Herbert Randolph (editor), Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, page 275,

     I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.

Anagrams

• Graeme, meager

English

Noun

meare (plural meares)

1. Obsolete form of mere. [14th-18th c.]
2. Obsolete form of mare. [14th-16th c.]

Adjective

meare

1. Obsolete form of mere. [16th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• Ameer, ameer, ramee, reame

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin me?re, present infinitive of me? (“I go along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?a.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: meà?re

Verb

meàre (first-person singular present mèo, first-person singular past historic meài, past participle meàto, auxiliary essere)

1. (intransitive, poetic, obsolete) to filter through

   Synonym: trapelare

Conjugation

References

• meare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

me?re

1. present active infinitive of me?
2. second-person singular present passive imperative of me?
3. second-person singular present passive indicative of me?

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæ???.re/

Noun

m?are

1. dative singular of mearh

Spanish

Verb

meare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of mear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of mear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of mear.