different between sore vs carbuncle

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sô, IPA^(key): /s??/
• (General American) enPR: sôr, IPA^(key): /s??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: s?r, IPA^(key): /so(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so?/
• Homophone: soar; saw (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sor, from Old English s?r (“ache, wound”, noun) and s?r (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *sair? (noun) (compare Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”)), and *sairaz (“sore”, adjective) (compare German sehr (“very”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?eyro-, enlargement of *sh?ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (s?war, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek ??????? (haim?día, “sensation of having teeth on edge”)).

Adjective

sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)

1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.

3. Dire; distressing.

4. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

5. (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
   • c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V Scene i:

     […] and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

sore (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
2. Sorely.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […]

   • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan:

     [… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

Noun

sore (plural sores)

1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

   They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

Translations

Verb

sore (third-person singular simple present sores, present participle soring, simple past and past participle sored)

1. (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

Derived terms

• soring

See also

• blister
• lesion
• ulcer

Etymology 2

See sord.

Noun

sore (plural sores)

1. A group of ducks on land.

Etymology 3

Old French saur, sor, meaning "sorrel; reddish".

Noun

sore (plural sores)

1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

2. A young buck in its fourth year.

Anagrams

• 'orse, EROS, Eros, ROEs, Roes, Rose, eros, ores, orse, roes, rose, rosé, sero-, öres

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore sore (“road”)

Pronunciation

/so.re/

Noun

sore (plural s?a)

1. road, way, street

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin supra.

Preposition

sore

1. over
2. above

Adverb

sore

1. above
2. on top
3. up

Derived terms

• disore
• parsore

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.re/
• Hyphenation: so?re

Noun

sore (first-person possessive soreku, second-person possessive soremu, third-person possessive sorenya)

1. the second half of the afternoon; the time of the day from around 3pm until sunset

   Synonym: petang

Further reading

• “sore” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin s?l, s?lem (compare Romanian soare); from Proto-Italic [Term?], from pre-Italic *sh?w?l, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?. Compare Romanian soare.

Noun

sore m (definite singular sorele, plural sori)

1. sun

Japanese

Romanization

sore

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malay

Etymology

From Indonesian sore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sore/
• Rhymes: -re, -e

Noun

sore (Jawi spelling ?????, plural sore-sore, informal 1st possessive soreku, impolite 2nd possessive soremu, 3rd possessive sorenya)

1. afternoon (part of the day between noon and evening)

Synonyms

• petang / ????

Further reading

• “sore” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French seür.

Adverb

sore

1. Alternative form of sure

Etymology 2

From Old English s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sair? (noun), *sairaz (adjective)

Alternative forms

• sar, sor, sær, sære, soor, soore, sarre

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /s??r/
• IPA^(key): /s??r/

Adjective

sore (plural and weak singular sore, comparative sorer, sorrer, superlative sorest)

1. Senses associated with pain:
   2. Harmful; creating or producing pain.
   3. Sore, hurting, injured; currently in pain or wounded or affected by it.
   4. Capable of inducing or creating pain or wounds; rending or dire.
2. Senses associated with anguish:
   1. Harmful; creating or producing anguish, sadness or torment.
   2. Upset, distressed; currently in agony or anguish or affected by it.
3. Challenging, complicated, laborious; requiring a large expenditure of one's energies:
   1. Challenging to deal with on the battlefield; violent, intense, mighty.
   2. Challenging to deal with; inducing great anguish.
4. (Used with words relating to pain, soreness, or anguish) Very, strongly, bad, grievously.
5. Malicious, iniquitous, malign; not morally or spiritually in the right.

Derived terms

• sorely
• sorhed
• sorenes
• sory

Descendants

• English: sore
• Scots: sair, sare

References

• “s?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

Noun

sore (plural sores)

2. The condition of bodily painfulness or hurting.
3. A condition of anguish or affliction of the thought; injury of the mind:
   1. An issue or difficulty, especially one that causes great distress or evil.
   2. Regret; remorsefulness; anguish over one's past actions.
   3. (rare) The state of being scared or frightened.
4. A specific affliction or condition:.
   1. A medical or pathological affliction or condition; a malady.
   2. A physical affliction or condition; a sore or wound.

Descendants

• English: sore
• Scots: sair

References

• “s?r(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-09.

Adverb

sore (comparative sorer, sorrer, superlative sorest)

2. Hurtfully, harmfully; in a way which creates wounds, painfulness, or anguish:
   1. Strictly, mercilessly, remorselessly; without attention to kindness or mercy.
   2. Expensively; in a way which creates a monetary or resource setback.
3. With intense effort, prowess, or capability:
   1. Viciously, mightily, ruthlessly, strongly; using intense strength or prowess in battle.
   2. Nimbly, powerfully, quickly; using intense dexterity or physical force.
   3. Toilingly; backbreakingly, painstakingly; with much work.
   4. With great patience and focus; diligently; patiently.
4. (Especially used with words relating to feelings or thought) Very, extremely, incredibly, a lot.
5. Taut, secure; held strongly and with security.
6. While suffering or experiencing an injury or pain.

Descendants

• English: sore
• Scots: sair

References

• “s?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-09.

Etymology 3

Verb

sore

1. Alternative form of soren

Etymology 4

Noun

sore

1. Alternative form of sor

Etymology 5

Noun

sore

1. Alternative form of sorre

Etymology 6

Noun

sore

1. Alternative form of sire

Moore

Etymology

Cognate with Farefare sore (“road”)

Pronunciation

/só.rè/

Noun

sore (plural soaya)

1. road, way, path
2. journey
3. crossing

English

Etymology

From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carb? (“a coal, charcoal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.b??.kl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???b??.kl?/

Noun

carbuncle (plural carbuncles)

1. (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
   1. (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
2. (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
3. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

Related terms

• carbon

Translations

References

• “carbuncle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “carbuncle”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• ruby

Middle English

Alternative forms

• carboncle, carbuncul, charbocle, charbokel, charbouncle, charbucle, charbukel, charbuncle, charbunkel

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, itself borrowed from Latin carbunculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karbunk?l/, /?karbuk?l/, /?t?-/

Noun

carbuncle (plural carbuncles)

1. A carbuncle (garnet or other precious stone)
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 179-81.

     His sheeld was al of gold so reed,

     And ther-inne was a bores heed,

     A charbocle bisyde;

2. Material similar to carbuncle.
3. (pathology) A carbuncle; a large abscess.

Descendants

• English: carbuncle

References

• “carbuncle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• charbuncle

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carbunculus.

Noun

carbuncle m (oblique plural carbuncles, nominative singular carbuncles, nominative plural carbuncle)

1. carbuncle (deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: carbuncle