different between vein vs prester

English

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n, IPA^(key): /ve?n/
• Homophones: vain, vane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

vein (plural veins)

1. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
2. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
3. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
   1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

7. (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth

     certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands

     Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

8. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
   • I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

Related terms

• in the same vein
• veined
• veinless
• veinlet
• veinlike
• veinstone
• veiny
• venation
• venous
• blue-veined cheese
• deep vein thrombosis
• pulmonary vein
• varicose vein

Translations

Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
   • 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,^[1]

     […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

   • 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,^[2]

     “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

See also

• artery
• blood vessel
• capillary
• circulatory system
• phlebitis
• vena cava

Further reading

• vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vein at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Vien, Vine, nevi, vine

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.

Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• punane vein
• valge vein

Finnish

Verb

vein

1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

Anagrams

• evin, vien

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.

Noun

vein m (plural veins)

1. wine

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vei?n/
• Rhymes: -ei?n

Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

1. wail, lament

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

vein

1. vain (worthless, useless)
2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
3. unfounded, false, misleading
4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

Alternative forms

• veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

Descendants

• English: vain
• Scots: vane, vain, vaine

Noun

vein (uncountable)

1. something that is worthless or futile
2. idleness, triviality

Alternative forms

• weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

Descendants

• English: vain

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

vein (plural veines)

1. Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

Adverb

vein

1. Alternative form of fain

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French prestre. See priest.

Noun

prester (plural presters)

1. (obsolete) A priest or presbyter.

Derived terms

• Prester John

Etymology 2

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pr?st?r, “hurricane or waterspout attended with lightning; (in plural) veins of the neck when swollen by anger”).

Noun

prester (plural presters)

1. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
2. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

Anagrams

• represt, terpers

French

Verb

prester

1. (Belgium, transitive) to work (a certain amount of time), to provide a service

   J'ai presté cinq heures.

Derived terms

• prestation

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• preter

Etymology

From Old French prester.

Verb

prester

1. to lend; to loan

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: prêter

Middle Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse prestr m, From Old English pr?ost. Cognate with Old Swedish præster and Icelandic prestur.

Noun

prester m

1. priest

Descendants

References

• Alieva, Dinara. (2013) Adnominale genitivskonstruksjoner i mellomnorsk.
• Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, Dataene er fra Diplomatarium Norvegicum bind I-XXI.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

prester m

1. indefinite plural of prest

Old French

Etymology

From Latin praest?re, present active infinitive of praest?.

Verb

prester

1. to borrow
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Tant que je puisse armes trover
     Ou a loiier ou a prester.

     As long as I can find arms

     Either to hire, or to borrow.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: prester, preter
  • French: prêter