different between nare vs nacre

English

Noun

nare (plural nares)

1. (rare, anatomy) A nostril
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

Derived terms

• narial

Usage notes

The Latin declension, naris (singular) and nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares and naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, Webster's 1913 enters it, and Samuel Butler's use of it in Hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of Edgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to "The Folio Club". It is likely that the singular nare began as the back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an English regular plural, which in turn caused that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine and narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error for naris.

Anagrams

• Arne, EARN, Earn, Near, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, near, rean

Aromanian

Noun

nare f

1. Alternative form of nari

Basque

Adjective

nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)

1. calm

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

nare

1. Inflected form of naar

Anagrams

• erna

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: nà?re

Noun

nare f pl

1. Obsolete form of nari (“nostrils”).

Japanese

Romanization

nare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Verb

n?re

1. present active infinitive of n?

Middle English

Adjective

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

Adverb

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From na +? -re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?na.??]

Adverb

nare

1. yesterday

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare

1. buffalo

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

nare

1. inflection of nara (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Romanian

Noun

nare f (plural n?ri)

1. Alternative form of nar?

Declension

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare 9 or 10 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare 9 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

Venetian

Verb

nare

1. Alternative form of ndar

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