different between rere vs scarce

English

Pronunciation

• (Hiberno-English) IPA^(key): /?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

rere (plural reres)

1. Archaic spelling of rear (all meanings).
2. (Ireland, law, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)

Quotations

• 1678 "In the rere of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." The Triumphs of London (Reprinted 1869 in Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath)
• 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere, to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne
• 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33
• 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere." Ulysses, Chapter V James Joyce
• 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule
• 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area
• 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
• 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere, and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent, 18 November 2009

Derived terms

• reredos

See also

• reredorter

References

• rere at Wordnik

Anagrams

• REER, erer

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin retro.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?re.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?re.?e/

Adverb

rere

1. behind, at the back

Synonyms

• darrere

Derived terms

• enrere

Preposition

rere

1. behind, at the back of
2. after (behind in place)
3. after, by

Synonyms

• darrere

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

r?re

1. second-person singular present active imperative of reor
2. second-person singular present active indicative of reor

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hr?r, hr?re, from hr?ran (see reren (“to rile”)).

Alternative forms

• hrere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?r(?)/

Adjective

rere

2. Referring to eggs; underdone, undercooked
3. (rare) Unknown, unadmitted.

Descendants

• English: rear, rare (of meat)

References

• “r??re, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman rere, from Latin retro.

Alternative forms

• reere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??r(?)/

Adjective

rere

2. (rare outside of compounds) Succeeding, successive, next, following.
3. (rare) Located at the rear, hind, or back.

Related terms

• rerebrace
• reredos
• rereward

Descendants

• English: rear
• Scots: rear

References

• “r?re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

Etymology 3

Verb

rere

1. Alternative form of reren (“to raise”)

Etymology 4

Noun

rere

1. Alternative form of reren (“to rile”)

Etymology 5

Adjective

rere

1. Alternative form of rare (“thin, airy, rare”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rere, from Latin r?dere, present active infinitive of r?d?.

Verb

rere

1. to shave

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin retr?.

Adjective

rere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rere)

1. late
2. after; later on

Adverb

rere

1. behind

   Constaunce […] lui vient rere au doos et le trebucha en la mere.

   Constance […] came behind his back and knocked him into the sea

Derived terms

• rereguarde

Etymology 2

From Latin r?dere, present active infinitive of r?d?.

Verb

rere

1. to shave

Related terms

• res
• raser

Descendants

• Middle French: rere

Rapa Nui

Verb

rere

1. fly

English

Alternative forms

• scarse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English scarce, skarce, scarse, scars, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare also Middle Dutch schaers (“sparing, niggard”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk??s/

Adjective

scarce (comparative scarcer, superlative scarcest)

1. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

   • You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth.
2. (archaic) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

Synonyms

• (uncommon, rare): geason, infrequent, raresome; see also Thesaurus:rare

Derived terms

Related terms

• scarcity

Translations

Adverb

scarce (not comparable)

1. (now literary, archaic) Scarcely, only just.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4:

     Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.

   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand,

     But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like a brand

     As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;

     And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,

     (Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!)

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:

     Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.

   • 1969, John Cleese, Monty Python's Flying Circus:

     Well, it's scarce the replacement then, is it?

Anagrams

• Craces, arcsec

Middle English

Noun

scarce

1. Alternative form of sarse