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scar
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: skär, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English s?eard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.
Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
- Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
Synonyms
- cicatrice, cicatrix
Related terms
- fire scar
- scar tissue
Translations
Verb
scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)
- (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
- (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Derived terms
- battle-scarred
Translations
See also
- birthmark
Etymology 2
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Anagrams
- CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., cars, csar, sacr-, sarc-
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska??/
Verb
scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)
- (transitive) sever
- (transitive) separate
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- (transitive) tear asunder
Conjugation
- Alternative verbal noun: scarúint (Munster)
Derived terms
- soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “scaraim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
- "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ·scart
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skar/
Verb
·scar
- third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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cicatrise
English
Alternative forms
- cicatrize (US)
Etymology
From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cic?tr?x (“scar”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?s?k.?.t?a?z/
Verb
cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)
- (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers
- But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.
- 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
Related terms
- cauterise
- cicatrix
Translations
French
Verb
cicatrise
- first-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
- third-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
- second-person singular imperative of cicatriser
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