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proffer
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English profre (“act of offering or presenting a gift; offer of something; challenge; sacrifice; act of petitioning or requesting; petition, request; proposal, suggestion; idea, thought; attempt, effort; appearance; (law) payment to the Exchequer by a sheriff or other officer of estimated revenue due to the monarch”) [and other forms], and then:
- partly from Late Latin profrum, proferum (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch (also puruoffrus), offer to convict a criminal”), and from its likely etymon Anglo-Norman profre, proffre, porofre (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch; offer, proposal”), and
- partly from the verb.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English prouffer, prouffre, Middle English profren, profer, proffere (“to offer, propose; to deliver, hand over, present; to take up; to volunteer; to dedicate; to attempt, try; to risk; to challenge; to provide; to ask, invite; to proceed, start; to grant; to argue”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman profrer, proferer, profferer, proffrir, propherer, proufrir, and Old French proferir, proffrir, profrir (“to offer, propose; to present; to volunteer”), variants of Anglo-Norman puroffrir and Middle French poroffrir, paroffrir, Old French poroffrir, paroffrir, porofrir, from por-, pur- (prefix meaning ‘to go through’ or having an intensifying effect) + offrir, ofrir (“to offer”) (modern French offrir (“to offer; to give as a gift; to open oneself up to (someone)”)). Offrir is derived from Vulgar Latin *offer?re, from Latin offerre, present active infinitive of offer? (“to offer, present; to exhibit, show; to expose; to cause, inflict; to consecrate, dedicate; to sacrifice”) (from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + fer? (“to bear, carry; to support; to endure; to bring forth; to put in motion; to move forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”))).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??f?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??f?/
- Rhymes: -?f?(r)
- Hyphenation: prof?fer
Noun
proffer (plural proffers)
- An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
- Synonym: proposition
- (obsolete) An attempt, an essay.
Alternative forms
- profre, proffre (obsolete)
Translations
Verb
proffer (third-person singular simple present proffers, present participle proffering, simple past and past participle proffered)
- (transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- profre, proffre (obsolete)
Derived terms
- profferable (rare)
- profferer
Related terms
- prolate
Translations
See also
- profer
References
Further reading
- proffer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- proffer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- proffer at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- proffre
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
proffer m
- indefinite plural of proff
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yield
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ji?ld/
- Rhymes: -i?ld
Etymology 1
From Middle English yielden, yelden, ?elden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ?ieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldan? (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).
Verb
yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yolden)
- (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- God yield thee, and God thank ye.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette
- The good mother holds me still a child! Good mother is bad mother unto me! A worse were better; yet no worse would I. Heaven yield her for it!
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- They refuse to yield to the enemy.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- […] We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never / Yields us kind answer.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 21:
- He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell headlong into the room.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 21:
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- Historically, that security yields a high return.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
Synonyms
- submit - To fully surrender
- capitulate - To end all resistance, may imply a compensation with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
- succumb - To fully surrender, because of helplessness and extreme weakness, to the leader of an opposing force
- relent - A yielding because of pity or mercy
- defer - A voluntary submitting out of respect, reverence or affection
- give way - To succumb to persistent persuasion.
- surrender - To give up into the power, control, or possession of another
- cede - To give up, give way, give away
- give up - To surrender
- produce - To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
- bear - To produce something, such as fruit or crops
- supply - To provide (something), to make (something) available for use
- give in
- to trade away - to let others get hold of a property or right of yours.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?eld, from Old English ?ield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).
Noun
yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)
- (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- A product; the quantity of something produced.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
Synonyms
- crop
- fruits
- gain
- harvest
- produce
- return
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Leidy, ylide
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