fere

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fiːɹ/
• Homophone: fear

From (Northumbrian) Old English fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra ( > Middle English y-fere).

• pheer

fere (plural feres)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.

2. (archaic) A spouse; an animal's mate.
   • Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)

     And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere.

   • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:

     The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.

• ferede

Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

1. (obsolete) fierce

• -free, Free, feer, free, reef

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-o- (“tight, close by”), a derivative of *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

ferē (not comparable)

1. nearly, almost, well-nigh, within a little, for the most part, about.
2. Closely, quite, entirely, fully, altogether, just.
3. In general, generally, usually, commonly, for most of the time.

• fermē

From for.

fēre

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

• fere in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fere in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • (ambiguous) to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    
  • (ambiguous) as usually happens: ut fit, ita ut fit, ut fere fit
    
  • (ambiguous) he spoke (very much) as follows: haec (fere) dixit
    
  • (ambiguous) this is very much what Cicero said: haec Ciceronis fere
    

• féther (Jersey)

fere

1. (Sark) to iron

From Latin faciō, facere.

fere

1. Alternative form of faire
   • circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     Sire, vostre prisoniers sui
     por fere ce que vos voldroiz

     Sire, I am your prisoner
     To do what you desire

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

fere

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ferir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ferir