mare

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”) (compare Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), from *marhaz (“horse”) (compare Old English mearh).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛəɹ/

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• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 035:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (Britain, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
   • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

     The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?

• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse), pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/

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mare (plural mares)

1. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
2. (Britain, colloquial) (clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

• daymare
• nightmare

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈmeːɹi/, /ˈmɑːɹi/

mare (plural maria)

1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

• Amer., Arem, Erma, Ream, amer., mear, rame, ramé, ream

• marë, marulë

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

mare f (definite singular marja)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. strawberry tree fruit

• mareshtë

mare

1. Alternative form of mari

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/
• Rhymes: -aɾe

mare f (plural mares)

1. mother

• “mare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin mare.

mare m

1. sea

From Old Norse mara.

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. incubus, succubus

• mareridt n

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

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From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. (archaic) message, report, story

   Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal

2. (archaic) rumor

   Synonym: gerucht

• vermaren

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
2. nightmare
3. witch

• nachtmare

See the etymology of the main entry.

mare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

• arme, rame

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Akin to Old High German meri (“lake, sea”) (German Meer), Old Saxon meri, Old English mere (“pond, pool, mere”) (English mere). More at mere.

• IPA^(key): /mɑʁ/

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mare f (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

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

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

From Latin mare.

mare

1. sea
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

• alto mare

From Latin māter.

mare f

1. mother

• mama

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːre/, [ˈmäːɾe]

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• Rhymes: -are

mare m (plural mari)

1. sea

• oceano (“ocean”)

• arme
• erma
• mera
• rame
• rema

mare

1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈma.rɛ]

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

1. sea
   • National motto of Canada:

     a marī usque ad mare ― from sea to sea

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

• pontus

• bimaris
• Hibēricum Mare
• Mare Balticum
• Mare Germanicum
• marīnus
• maritimus

mare

1. ablative singular of mas

• mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    
  • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz.

mâre

1. famous, famed
2. honoured, prestigious
3. well-known

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

mâre f

1. fame, famousness
2. rumour
3. message

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar, mare
• Limburgish: maer

māre ?

1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar
• Limburgish: maar

• “mare (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “mare (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “mare (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarɐ/

mare

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

From Old French mare.

mare f (plural mares)

1. (France, Guernsey) pool

From Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

• IPA^(key): /mɑre/

mare f (nominative plural maran)

1. nightmare, evil spirit

• English: mare

• mar

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

mare

1. evilly; badly

mare

1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

mare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of marar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of marar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of marar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of marar

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

From Latin mārem, accusative singular of mās (“male”), from Proto-Indo-European *meryo (“young man”)

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   Antonym: mic

   O mare mare. ― A big sea.

2. great, mighty

   Un om mare. ― A great man.

• mări
• mărime
• mărinimos

• măreț

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mare f (plural mări)

1. sea

   Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.

   When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.

• marin

mare

1. boy

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Use hota.

From Latin māter, mātrem. Compare Italian madre

mare f (invariable)

1. mother

• pare

Borrowed from Arabic مارا‎.

mare ?

1. marriage