spere

spere (plural speres)

1. (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.

• Esper, Peers, Perse, Spree, esper, peers, per se, perse, pères, speer, spree

From Middle High German sperren, from Old High German sperran (“to put up rafters, beams; to barricade”), from sper (“spear”), from Proto-Germanic *speru.

spere

1. (Uri) to block, to bar

• “spere” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 64.

From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

spere f or n

1. spear, lance
2. spearman, lancer

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: speer
• Limburgish: spaer

• “spere, sperre”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “spere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English spere, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

• sperre, spære, speer, spear, sper

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres or sperren)

1. A spear or lance.
2. (Christianity) The Lance of Longinus.
3. A barb or point.
4. A spearman; a soldier who wields a spear.

• English: spear
• Scots: spere, speir

• “spēre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

From Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).

• sper, spire, sphere

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeːr(ə)/, /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres)

1. (astronomy) The cosmos, outer space
2. A globe or sphere representing outer space.
3. (astronomy) The supposed outer sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile.
4. sphere, ball, a spherical object.

• English: sphere
• Scots: sphere, spere

• “spẹ̄re (n.(3))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

From Medieval Latin spera.

• sperre, spure

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres)

1. partition, divider

• English: spere

• “spēr(e (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

From Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with Old High German sper (German Speer), West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, Old Norse spjör.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspere/

spere n (nominative plural speoru)

1. spear, lance, pike, javelin

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle English: spere, spear
  • English: spear

• IPA^(key): [ˈspere]

spere

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of spera
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of spera