different between sicer vs siker

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin s?cera.

Noun

sicer

1. Alternative form of ciser

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Etymology 2

From Old English sicor.

Adjective

sicer

1. Alternative form of siker

Adverb

sicer

1. Alternative form of siker

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certain
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: secure
   • 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:

     "That schip had a ful siker mast,

     And a sayl strong and large."

Derived terms

• sikerly
• sikerness

Adverb

siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: securely

Anagrams

• Keirs, Kiers, Kiser, Rikes, Riske, keirs, keris, kiers, skier

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from sikeres, which originally meant "having high gluten content" (of wheat), but today normally means "successful". The back-formation was done by splitting the adjectival suffix -es.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ik?r]
• Hyphenation: si?ker
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

siker (plural sikerek)

1. success

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• siker in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (sakara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.k?r/

Verb

siker (imperfect jisker)

1. to get drunk
2. to be overwatered (trees)

Conjugation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• syker, sykir, sikyr, sykyr, sicer, secir, sikir, seker, sekir, sekire, sicker, sekor, cykyr, ziker, sekyr, sicur

Etymology

From Old English sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur, from Latin s?c?rus. Doublet of sure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sik?r/

Adjective

siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)

1. safe, (having safety or security; not harmful or dangerous); the following special senses are especially prevalent:
   1. sinless, not spiritually dangerous
   2. fortified, secure, guarded
2. firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
3. reliable, long-lasting, of good quality
4. unerring, continuously and exceptionlessly excellent
5. actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
6. Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
7. Full of certainty, sure; having great trust in one's actions
8. reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
9. In good health or condition; healed

Descendants

• English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
• Scots: siker, seker, siccar
• ? Welsh: sicr

References

• “siker, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

Adverb

siker (comparative sikerer)

1. safely, carefully
2. certainly, surely, inevitably
3. assuredly, with sureness
4. powerfully

Descendants

• English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
• Scots: siker, seker, siccar

References

• “siker, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

siker

1. indefinite plural of sik
2. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

siker

1. present tense of sike

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

siker f

1. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

siker

1. present tense of sika and sike

Turkish

Verb

siker

1. third-person negative singular simple present indicative of sikmemek
2. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of sikmek

Antonyms

• sikmez

See also

• siker sikmez