different between xeroxlore vs lore

English

Etymology

xerox +? lore.

Noun

xeroxlore (uncountable)

1. Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).
   • 1995, Indiana University, Journal of folklore research (volume 32)

     I did some of my research on xeroxlore, or photocopylore, in a textile dyeing plant of about 250 people.

Synonyms

• copylore
• photocopylore

Coordinate terms

• faxlore

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: l?r, IPA^(key): /lo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /lo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: law (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lore, from Old English l?r, from Proto-West Germanic *lai?u, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.

Noun

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

1. All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

   the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;

     They heare him not, they have forgot his lore

     But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

2. The backstory created around a fictional universe.
3. (obsolete) Workmanship.
   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,

     About the which two serpents weren wound;

     Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,

     And by the tailes together firmely bound […]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).

Noun

lore (plural lores)

1. (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
2. (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Derived terms

• lored

Etymology 3

Verb

lore

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
3. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lese

Anagrams

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, role, rôle

Basque

Etymology

From Latin flos, florem.

Noun

lore inan

1. flower

Declension

Ido

Etymology

From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +? -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo.re/, /?l?.??/

Adverb

lore

1. (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time

Related terms

• lora (“then, now”)

See also

• ita (“that (person)”)
• ito (“that (thing)”)
• iti (“that (plural)”)
• pro ito (“therefore”)
• ibe (“there”)
• tala (“such kind of”)
  • tale (“thus”)
• tanta (“so much”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English l?r, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?. Compare Middle Low German lêre, lêr, Middle High German l?re, Middle Dutch lere, Old Frisian l?re.

Alternative forms

• loore, lare, lar, layre, loare, lere, leyre, leore, lære

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lore (plural lores or loren)

2. education, tutoring, mentoring; learning; the absorption of knowledge
3. lore, knowledge, information, especially:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

   1. (religion) religious beliefs, doctrine, orthodoxy
   2. area of study, subject, topic, science
   3. (rare) The foundations of a subject; the collected works on a topic.
4. recommendation, suggestion, tip; admonition, exhortation, pleading
5. A moral code; standards of conduct; a way of acting, standard.
6. A demand, order, or task
7. (rare) knowledge, aptitude, competence
8. (rare) significance, value, importance
9. (rare) tale, narrative

Derived terms

• larðewe
• larew
• larspel
• loresman
• lorfadyr
• lorþeine

Descendants

• English: lore
• Scots: lare, lair

References

• “l?r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Etymology 2

From Old English lor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??r(?)/

Noun

lore

2. loss (losing something)
3. loss (having soldiers killed in battle)
4. ruin, destruction, injury.

Descendants

• English: lore

References

• “l?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Tarantino

Adjective

lore m (possessive, plural)

1. theirs