different between sabre vs sacre

English

Alternative forms

• (chiefly US): saber

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian ?????? (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian ?????.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?(?)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?/
• Rhymes: -e?b?(?)
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre (plural sabres)

1. (Britain, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
2. (Britain, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

Usage notes

This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

Derived terms

• lightsaber, lightsabre
• sabrage

Translations

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

1. (Britain, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sabre.

See also

• sabrer
• sabreur

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, barse, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber

Asturian

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. Alternative form of sable

Basque

Alternative forms

• sable

Noun

sabre

1. sabre, saber

Catalan

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From German Säbel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab?/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. a single-edged sword
2. the force, arms
3. cutlassfish

Derived terms

• sabre laser
• tigre à dents de sabre

Descendants

• ? English: sabre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• baser, brase, brasé

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.bre/
• Hyphenation: sà?bre

Noun

sabre m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Adjective

sabre (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sand

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?sa.????/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?i/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?e/
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre (military weapon)
2. sabre (fencing weapon)

Related terms

• espada, esgrima, florete

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sacren, sakeren, from Old French sacrer (“to hallow”), from Latin sacr? (“to make sacred, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”).

Verb

sacre (third-person singular simple present sacres, present participle sacring, simple past and past participle sacred)

1. (obsolete) To consecrate
   • c.1382-1395, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe), Exodus 28:41,

     And thou schalt clothe Aaron, thi brother, with alle these, and hise sones with hym. And thou schalt sacre the hondis of alle; and thou schalt halewe hem, that thei be set in preesthood to me.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,

     And I purpose this night to sacre you all with the Holy Incense.

   • 1911, Aix-la-Chapelle, article in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica,

     From the coronation of Louis the Pious in 813 until that of Ferdinand I. in 1531 the sacring of the German kings took place at Aix, and as many as thirty-two emperors and kings were here crowned.

Etymology 2

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. Alternative form of saker (“type of cannon”)

Anagrams

• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, scare, serac, sérac

French

Etymology

From sacrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak?/

Noun

sacre m (plural sacres)

1. coronation
2. (Quebec) swear word, curse

Verb

sacre

1. inflection of sacrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, scare

Italian

Adjective

sacre

1. feminine plural of sacro

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sacree and sacre. Probably influenced by Old French sacré, past participle of Old French sacrer.

Alternative forms

• sacri, sakare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kre?/

Adjective

sacr?

1. sacred

Noun

sacr? (plural sacres)

1. A religious festival
2. A consecration, especially the coronation of a monarch

Etymology 2

From Old French sacre, sagre.

Alternative forms

• sagre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kr?/, /?sa?k?r/

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. A saker falcon, especially a female

Derived terms

• sacrette

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.kre]

Adjective

sacre f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of sacru