pare

See also: Pare, paré, parè, pâre, parê, parë, päre, and parę

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French parer (to arrange, prepare, trim), from Latin parō (I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose) (related to pariō (I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (to bring forward, bring forth).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pâr, IPA(key): /peə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
  • Homophones: pair, pear

Verb

pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)

  1. (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
    Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
  2. (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
    Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
  3. to trim the hoof of a horse

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Anagrams


Albanian

Noun

pare f

  1. money

Asturian

Verb

pare

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of parar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of parar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pare m (plural pares)

  1. father

Derived terms

Further reading


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

pare

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of paren

Anagrams


Esperanto

Adverb

pare

  1. pairwise

French

Verb

pare

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of parer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of parer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of parer
  5. second-person singular imperative of parer

Anagrams


Galician

Verb

pare

  1. third-person singular present indicative of parir
  2. second-person singular imperative of parir

Interlingua

Verb

pare

  1. present of parer
  2. imperative of parer

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -are

Verb

pare

  1. third-person singular indicative present of parere

Anagrams


Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑːɾɛ/

Noun

pare m

  1. money (currency)

Latin

Verb

pārē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

Maore Comorian

Noun

pare class 5 (plural mavhare class 6)

  1. road

Ngazidja Comorian

Noun

pare (noun class 5/6, plural mapvare)

  1. road

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

pare

  1. inflection of para (other):
    1. masculine and neuter locative singular
    2. masculine nominative and accusative plural
    3. feminine vocative singular

Portuguese

Brazilian stop sign

Pronunciation

Verb

pare

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of parar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of parar
  3. third-person singular imperative of parar

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -are

Verb

pare

  1. third-person singular present indicative of părea

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) paraid
  • (Sursilvan) preit

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *paretem, from Latin pariēs, parietem.

Noun

pare f (plural pares)

  1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) (internal) wall
  2. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) rock face
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) mir
  • (Surmiran) meir
  • (Puter, Vallader) mür

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

  1. money


Spanish

Chilean stop sign

Verb

pare

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of parar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of parar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of parar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of parar.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

Noun

pare m (plural pari)

  1. father

See also

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