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pareil
English
Etymology
French pareil
Noun
pareil (plural pareils)
- (obsolete, quaint) An equal.
- Among writers he was a man without pareil.
French
Etymology
From Middle French pareil, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pariclus (compare Catalan parell, Greek ????? (paréa), Italian parecchio, Occitan parelh, Romanian pereche, Spanish parejo), from contraction of *pariculus, a diminutive of Latin p?r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.??j/
- Rhymes: -?j
Adjective
pareil (feminine singular pareille, masculine plural pareils, feminine plural pareilles)
- such
- like, alike, same
Usage notes
The adjective is often placed before the noun in formal style: un pareil crime, whereas un crime pareil sounds more natural.
Derived terms
- être du pareil au même
- impareil
- sans pareil
- ne pas avoir son pareil
- nonpareil
- rendre la pareille
See also
- même
- tel
Further reading
- “pareil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- palier, pilera, plaire, pliera, replia
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nonpareil
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English non-parail (“unparalleled, nonpareil”) [and other forms], from Middle French nonpareille, nonpareil (“unparalleled”) (obsolete), from non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + pareil (“alike, like, same”). Pareil is derived from Old French pareil, from Vulgar Latin *pariclus (“equal; like; of a number: even”), a contraction of *pariculus, from Latin p?r (“equal; like; of a number: even; suitable”) + -culus (a variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)).
Noun sense 4 (size of type standardized at 6-point) is usually taken to derive from the attractive type cut by the brothers Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori (fl.?1482–1503 and 1496–1527 respectively) for their 1498 edition of the divine offices in Venice; it was for a long time the smallest-sized type in use.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /n?np???e?(l)/, /n?m-/, /?n?np??(?)l/, /?n?np?(?)l/, /?n?m-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?np????l/
- Rhymes: -e?, -e?l, -?l
- Hyphenation: non?par?eil
Adjective
nonpareil (comparative more nonpareil, superlative most nonpareil)
- (frequently postpositive) Unequalled, unrivalled; unique. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unique
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:common
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 33:
Alternative forms
- non-pareil
Translations
Noun
nonpareil (countable and uncountable, plural nonpareils)
- (countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon. [from 16th c.]
- c.1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; or, What You Will,
- 1901 - Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 240
- (a wren) crept or crawled, just like a true tree-creeper. I was, as I say, quite close, and watched it most attentively. It certainly—as far as good looking can settle it—did not assist itself with the wings. They remained close against the sides, or, if they moved at all, it was imperceptible to my eyes (which, by the way, are non-pareils).
- c.1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; or, What You Will,
- (countable, biology)
- The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species.
- (chiefly Australia, archaic) In full nonpareil parrot: the eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius), a species of rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia.
- (chiefly US) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
- (archaic) In full nonpareil apple: a variety of apple tasting both sweet and tart which ripens very late in the season; also, the tree producing this fruit.
- (countable, chiefly US, cooking)
- (archaic) Any of various types of small sweets.
- (by extension, dated) A small pellet of white or coloured sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
- Synonyms: (Australia, Britain, plural only) hundreds and thousands, (US) sprinkles
- (by extension) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
- (by extension) A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
- (uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) The size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.
- Synonym: (in European contexts) nonpareille
- 1881 May 19, Hermann Cohn, Eyes and School-Books, in Popular Science Monthly,
Alternative forms
- non-pareil
- nonparella, nonpareillo (quasi-Italian, obsolete, chiefly 17th–18th c.)
Translations
References
Further reading
- nonpareils on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nonpareil (apple) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nonpareil (typography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nonpareil (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Catocala fraxini on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Passerina ciris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Platycercus eximius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
- plane iron
Middle French
Alternative forms
- nompareil
Adjective
nonpareil m (feminine singular nonpareille, masculine plural nonpareils, feminine plural nonpareilles)
- unparallelled; unprecedented
Romanian
Etymology
From French nonpareille.
Noun
nonpareil n (uncountable)
- nonpareil
Declension
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