different between parer vs paler

English

Etymology

From pare +? -er.

Noun

parer (plural parers)

1. A tool used to pare things.

Anagrams

• Raper, raper

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin par?re. Displaced as a verb by the doublet parèixer (“to seem”); compare Spanish parecer (“to seem; opinion”). Also compare Friulian parè, Italian parere, Romanian p?rere.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p????/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p????/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa??e?/

Noun

parer m (plural parers)

1. view, opinion

Further reading

• “parer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “parer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “parer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “parer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin par?re, present active infinitive of par?, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.?e/
• Homophones: parai, paré, parée, parées, parés, parez

Verb

parer

1. to adorn; to bedeck

2. to fend off
3. (fencing) to parry
4. (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• râper

Interlingua

Verb

parer

1. to seem, appear to be

Conjugation

Derived terms

• disparer

Latin

Verb

parer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of par?

Venetian

Alternative forms

• parare

Etymology

From Latin par?re, present active infinitive of p?re? (“I appear, I am visible, apparent”).

Verb

parer

1. (transitive) to seem (look like)

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Adjective

paler

1. comparative form of pale: more pale

Anagrams

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, lepra, parle, pearl, repla

Latin

Verb

p?ler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of p?l?