different between nacre vs sacre

English

Alternative forms

• naker, nacker (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French nacre, from Medieval Latin nacchara, from Arabic ?????????? (naqq?ra). Also present in nacarat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne?k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ne?k??/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(?)

Noun

nacre (plural nacres)

1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. [16th-19th c.]
2. A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• nacrous

Translations

Anagrams

• Caren, Carne, Cerna, Crane, Crean, Rance, caner, caren, crane, crena, rance, recan

French

Etymology

From Middle French nacre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nak?/

Noun

nacre f (plural nacres)

1. mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)

Verb

nacre

1. first-person singular present indicative of nacrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of nacrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of nacrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of nacrer
5. second-person singular imperative of nacrer

Derived terms

• nacré
• nacrer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ancre, ancré, cerna, crâne, écran, encra, rance

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nacre, nacaire, from Medieval Latin nacchara, from Arabic ?????????? (naqq?ra).

Noun

nacre m (plural nacres)

1. nacre (shellfish)
   • 1608, Histoire du monde... mis en français par Antoine Dupinet, Chapter 42, page 490

     Les Nacres aussi sont de la race des poissons à escailles.

Descendants

• French: nacre (“morther-of-pearl”), nacaire (“a small drum”)
• ? Catalan: nacre
  • ? Portuguese: nácar
  • ? Spanish: nácar
• ? English: nacre, naker, nacker

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sacren, sakeren, from Old French sacrer (“to hallow”), from Latin sacr? (“to make sacred, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”).

Verb

sacre (third-person singular simple present sacres, present participle sacring, simple past and past participle sacred)

1. (obsolete) To consecrate
   • c.1382-1395, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe), Exodus 28:41,

     And thou schalt clothe Aaron, thi brother, with alle these, and hise sones with hym. And thou schalt sacre the hondis of alle; and thou schalt halewe hem, that thei be set in preesthood to me.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,

     And I purpose this night to sacre you all with the Holy Incense.

   • 1911, Aix-la-Chapelle, article in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica,

     From the coronation of Louis the Pious in 813 until that of Ferdinand I. in 1531 the sacring of the German kings took place at Aix, and as many as thirty-two emperors and kings were here crowned.

Etymology 2

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. Alternative form of saker (“type of cannon”)

Anagrams

• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, scare, serac, sérac

French

Etymology

From sacrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak?/

Noun

sacre m (plural sacres)

1. coronation
2. (Quebec) swear word, curse

Verb

sacre

1. inflection of sacrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, scare

Italian

Adjective

sacre

1. feminine plural of sacro

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sacree and sacre. Probably influenced by Old French sacré, past participle of Old French sacrer.

Alternative forms

• sacri, sakare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kre?/

Adjective

sacr?

1. sacred

Noun

sacr? (plural sacres)

1. A religious festival
2. A consecration, especially the coronation of a monarch

Etymology 2

From Old French sacre, sagre.

Alternative forms

• sagre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kr?/, /?sa?k?r/

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. A saker falcon, especially a female

Derived terms

• sacrette

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.kre]

Adjective

sacre f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of sacru