different between parev vs parer

English

Adjective

parev (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of pareve

Usage notes

In Yiddish, ????????? (parev) is the predicative form and ?????????? (pareve) the attributive form of the adjective. Some speakers familiar with Yiddish use this distribution in English as well, e.g. My mom made a pareve casserole but This casserole is parev.

Anagrams

• parve, paver, vaper

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.