different between rare vs vare

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???(?)/
• (Irish) IPA^(key): [???]
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /????/, /???/

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin r?rus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *er(e)-, *r?- (“friable, thin”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English g?sne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English selds?ne; see seldsome).

Adjective

rare (comparative rarer, superlative rarest)

1. Very uncommon; scarce.

   Synonyms: scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommon; see also Thesaurus:rare

   Antonyms: common, frequent; see also Thesaurus:common
2. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
3. (Britain, slang) Good; enjoyable.
   • 1981, Chris Difford (lyrics), Glenn Tilbrook (vocal), "Vanity Fair" (song):

     Sees her reflection in a butcher shop.

     She finds it all quite rare

     That her meat's all vanity fair.

Derived terms

• rare bird
• rare earth mineral

Related terms

• rarity

Translations

Noun

rare (plural rares)

1. (gaming) A scarce or uncommon item.
   • 1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering Magic Cards (page 116)

     Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.

Etymology 2

From a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hr?r, hr?re (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hr?ran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?zijan? (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *?roHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hr?r (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear.

Alternative forms

• reer, rere (British)

Adjective

rare (comparative rarer or more rare, superlative rarest or most rare)

1. (cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.

   Antonym: well done

Derived terms

• medium rare

Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of rear.

Verb

rare (third-person singular simple present rares, present participle raring, simple past and past participle rared)

1. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 328:

     Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.

2. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.

Usage notes

• Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring with a verb in "raring to". The principal verb in that construction is go. Thus, raring to go ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which rare is most often encountered as a verb.

Etymology 4

Compare rather, rath.

Adjective

rare (comparative more rare, superlative most rare)

1. (obsolete) early

References

• Rare in The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Anagrams

• arré, rear

Danish

Adjective

rare

1. plural and definite singular attributive of rar

Dutch

Alternative forms

• raren (Brabantian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.r?/

Adjective

rare

1. Inflected form of raar

Noun

rare m (plural raren, diminutive rareke n)

1. weird person

   Synonym: rare vogel

References

• [1]

French

Etymology

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin r?rus. Compare the inherited Old French rer, rere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Adjective

rare (plural rares)

1. rare

Derived terms

• métal rare
• oiseau rare
• perle rare
• rareté
• rarissime
• se faire rare
• terre rare

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• erra

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a???

Adjective

rare

1. inflection of rar:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Ido

Adverb

rare

1. rarely

   Antonyms: freque, ofte

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Adjective

rare

1. feminine plural of raro

Anagrams

• erra

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

r?r? (comparative r?rius, superlative r?rissim?)

1. thinly, sparsely, here and there
2. rarely, seldom

Etymology 2

Adjective

r?re

1. vocative masculine singular of r?rus

References

• rare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rere

Etymology

From Old French rer and Latin r?rus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?r(?)/, /?r??r(?)/

Adjective

rare

1. airy, vacuous
2. porous, breathable
3. sparsely spread
4. rare, uncommon, scarce
5. small, little

Related terms

• rarefien

Descendants

• English: rare

References

• “r?r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?rus.

Adjective

rare m or f

1. (Jersey) rare

Derived terms

• rarement (“rarely”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rare

1. inflection of rar:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

rare

1. inflection of rar:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Swedish

Adjective

rare

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of rar.

Anagrams

• rear

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

vare (plural vares)

1. (Britain, dialect) A weasel.

Derived terms

• vare widgeon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”)

Noun

vare (plural vares)

1. A wand or staff of authority or justice.
   • 1681-1682, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

     His hand a vare of justice did uphold.

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, Vera, aver, evar, rave, vera

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?var?]

Noun

vare

1. vocative singular of var

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?r?/, [?????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara f, from Proto-Germanic *war? (“attention, care”), cognate with Swedish vara, English ware, German Ware. Derived from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“cautious, aware”) (cf. Danish var).

Noun

vare c (singular definite varen, plural indefinite varer)

1. article
2. commodity
3. item
4. (in the plural) goods, merchandise, wares

Inflection

References

• “vare,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Vare,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vari m, from Proto-Germanic *war? (“attention, care”), originally the same word as the previous one. The phrase tage vare is influenced by Middle Low German warnemen, compare German wahrnehmen (“to perceive”), Dutch waarnemen.

Noun

vare c

1. protection

   only in the expression tage vare (på/om) (“take care of, look after”)

References

• “vare,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Vare,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle Low German w?ren, from Proto-Germanic *waz?n?, *wez?n? (“to stay, remain”), cognate with German währen. Derived from the verb *wesan? (“to be”) (Danish være).

Verb

vare (past tense varede, past participle varet)

1. to last, take (to have a certain duration)

Inflection

Derived terms

• vare ved
• varig

References

• “vare,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “vare,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 4

From Old Norse vara, from Proto-Germanic *war?n? (“to watch, protext”), derived from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“cautious, aware”) (cf. Danish var) Cognate with English ware (“to guard”) and German wahren (“to protect”).

Verb

vare (past tense varede, past participle varet)

1. (transitive, archaic) to warn
   • 1857, Hans Christian Andersen, At være eller ikke være, p. 160 / https://books.google.dk/books?id=kjKgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT185

2. (transitive, archaic) to guard

   in the modern language only in the expression vare sin mund "be careful about what to say"

3. (reflexive) to be careful, beware
   • 1970, Willy-August Linnemann, Det andet Europa / https://books.google.dk/books?id=ecDYDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT155

Inflection

Derived terms

• advare
• forvare
• varsel

References

• “vare,4” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “vare,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

vare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of varen

Anagrams

• rave

Estonian

Noun

vare (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. ruin (construction withered by time)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a?.re/, [?u?ä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.re/, [?v????]

Adjective

v?re

1. vocative masculine singular of v?rus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara.

Noun

vare f or m (definite singular vara or varen, indefinite plural varer, definite plural varene)

1. an article or item (of goods)

2. a commodity
3. (in plural form) goods, merchandise, wares

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vari.

Noun

vare (indeclinable)

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Derived terms

• ta vare på

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German waren; also related to være.

Verb

vare (imperative var, present tense varer, simple past varte, past participle vart, present participle varende)

1. to last, take (last)

Derived terms

References

• “vare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara.

Noun

vare f (definite singular vara, indefinite plural varer, definite plural varene)

1. an article or item (of goods)
2. a commodity
3. (in plural form) goods, merchandise, wares

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vara.

Alternative forms

• vara (a- and split infinitives)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??(?).r?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

vare (present tense varar, past tense vara, past participle vara, passive infinitive varast, present participle varande, imperative var)

1. to watch, keep
2. to warn

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vari.

Noun

vare m

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Derived terms

• ta vare på

Etymology 4

Adjective

vare

1. definite singular of var
2. plural of var

References

• “vare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arve, Arve, erva, evar, rave, reva, vear, vera, vêra, Vera

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

vare

1. inflection of vara (“excellent”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Noun

vare

1. locative singular of vara (“wish”)

Verb

vare

1. first/second/third-person singular optative active of varati (“to wish”)

Portuguese

Verb

vare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of varar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of varar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of varar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of varar

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

vare (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of variti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?e/, [?ba.?e]

Verb

vare

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of varar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of varar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of varar.

Swedish

Verb

vare

1. be, present tense subjunctive of vara.

Derived terms

See also

• vore

Anagrams

• Vera, evar