different between nare vs nary

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

• narry

Etymology

Variant form of ne'er a.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n???i/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -???i

Adverb

nary (not comparable)

1. Not, never.
   • 2014, Richard Swenson, More Than Meets the Eye: Fascinating Glimpses of God's Power and Design, Tyndale House (?ISBN)

     Every day, uncomplaining, this ten-ounce muscle contracts 100 thousand times nary “missing a beat.” Over a lifetime of faithful service, these two self-lubricating, self-regulating, high-capacity pumps beat two and one-half billion times […]

   • 1923, Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines

     And all about the room, candles gleaming in branched sconces. Nary one glare of electric light.

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mr. Hat), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:

Adjective

nary (not comparable)

1. Not any.
   • 1910, John McElroy, Si Klegg: Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign, page 109:

     We'uns wuz willin't fout fur ole Tennessee, but for nary other State. When he started out o' Tennessee we'uns jest concluded t' strike out and leave him.

   • 1961 March 20, Flannery O'Connor, letter to Maryat Lee, [ublished in 1988, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (?ISBN):

     I'm cheered you liked [“The Partridge Festival”] but I must have it back as I have nary other copy. If you really want to read somebody, read Proust for pity's sake.

   • 2010, Dorothy McCleary, Not for Heaven, Wildside Press LLC (?ISBN), page 289:

     "Pish, and who cares for nary other?" Mrs. Bostwick cried out, tossing Etta's hand away from her. "I do, for one," said Etta tartly.

Translations

References

• nary at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arny, N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, yarn