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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sp??/, [sp??], [sp??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear, park.

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Derived terms

• spar buoy
• spar deck
• spar torpedo

Translations

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

Derived terms

• oversparred, undersparred

Etymology 2

From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Translations

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærst?n (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

Noun

spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)

2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

Descendants

• ? Irish: sparra
• ? Welsh: sbar

Translations

Anagrams

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-

Danish

Etymology 1

From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”).

Noun

spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)

1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

See also

• spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?r/
• Hyphenation: spar
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)

1. spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.

Derived terms

• blauwspar
• douglasspar
• fijnspar
• Nordmannspar
• zilverspar

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa???]

Verb

spar

1. singular imperative of sparen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen

Icelandic

Adjective

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

1. economical
2. thrifty

Declension

Middle English

Verb

spar

1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)

Noun

spar

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

References

• “spar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)

Noun

spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. present of spa
2. imperative of spara

References

• “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

spar

1. present tense of spara.
2. imperative of spara.

Anagrams

• pars, raps

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????j?m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????j?m?nt/, /-?ju-/, /-?j?-/
• Hyphenation: ar?gu?ment

Etymology 1

From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin arg?mentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”), from arguere + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is the present active infinitive of argu? (“to argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false”), either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er?- (“silver, white; glittering”), or from Hittite [script needed] (arkuw?(i)-, “to make a plea, state one’s case”). The English word is analysable as argue +? -ment.

Noun

argument (countable and uncountable, plural arguments)

1. (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument

   1. (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
2. (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
3. (countable) An abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, or poem; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
4. (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dispute
6. (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
7. (countable, mathematics)
   1. The independent variable of a function.
   2. The phase of a complex number.
   3. (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.

8. (countable, programming)
   1. A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.

      Synonyms: actual argument, passed parameter

   2. A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
9. (countable, obsolete)
   1. A matter in question; a business in hand.
   2. The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
10. (uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with argument: valid, invalid, correct, incorrect, right, wrong, strong, weak, convincing, unconvincing, conclusive, inconclusive, fallacious, simple, straightforward, inductive, deductive, logical, illogical, absurd, specious, flawed.
• (parameter at a function call): some authors regard the use of argument to mean “formal parameter” to be imprecise, preferring that argument be used to refer only to the value that is used to instantiate the parameter at runtime, while parameter refers only to the name in the function definition that will be instantiated.

Alternative forms

• arguement (obsolete)

Meronyms

• (logic): conclusion, premise, proposition

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

The obsolete senses are derived from Middle English argumenten (“to argue, discuss; to consider, reflect”), from Old French argumenter (“to argue”), from Latin arg?ment?r?, the present active infinitive of arg?mentor (“to adduce arguments or proof, prove, reason; to adduce (something) as argument or proof; to conclude”), from arg?mentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”) (see further at etymology 1) +? -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

The current sense is derived from the noun.

Verb

argument (third-person singular simple present arguments, present participle argumenting, simple past and past participle argumented)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof.

Conjugation

References

Further reading

• argument on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• argument of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• argument (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• argument (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• argument (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• argument in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• argument in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arg?mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.?u?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.?u?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.?u?ment/

Noun

argument m (plural arguments)

1. argument (reason)
2. (computing) argument
3. plot, storyline
4. (mathematics) argument
5. (grammar) argument

Related terms

• argumentar

Further reading

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ar?um?nt]

Noun

argument m

1. argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)

Declension

Derived terms

• pseudoargument
• protiargument

Related terms

• argumentace

See also

• parametr m

Further reading

• argument in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• argument in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

argument n (singular definite argumentet, plural indefinite argumenter)

1. argument

Declension

Related terms

• argumentere

References

• “argument” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arg?mentum, from argu? (“prove, argue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?y.m??/

Noun

argument m (plural arguments)

1. argument

2. (grammar) argument of a verb, phrase syntactically connected to a verb (object and subject)

Derived terms

• argumentaire
• argumenter
  • argumentation

Related terms

• arguer

See also

• (grammar): valence

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin argumentum

Noun

argument n (definite singular argumentet, indefinite plural argument or argumenter, definite plural argumenta or argumentene)

1. argument

Related terms

• argumentere
• argumentasjon

References

• “argument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin argumentum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r???m?nt/

Noun

argument n (definite singular argumentet, indefinite plural argument, definite plural argumenta)

1. argument

Related terms

• argumentasjon

References

• “argument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin arg?mentum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar??u.m?nt/

Noun

argument m inan

1. point, argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
2. (philosophy, logic, mathematics, programming) argument

Declension

Synonyms

• uzasadnienie, racja, pod?o?e, podstawa, przes?anka, powód,
• dowód, operand, parametr

Related terms

• argumentacja

Further reading

• argument in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French argument, from Latin argumentum.

Noun

argument n (plural argumente)

1. argument

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar??ment/
• Hyphenation: ar?gu?ment

Noun

argùment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
2. (philosophy, logic, mathematics, programming) argument

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

argument n

1. an argument supporting a stance
2. (mathematics) an argument; an independent variable passed to a function
3. (programming) an argument; a variable passed to a function

Declension