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fere

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See also: fêre and fərə

English

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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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 person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
      And Cambel tooke 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.
    • 1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story:
      What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English fer, from Anglo-Norman fer, from Old French fier. Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

Adjective

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fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

  1. (obsolete) Fierce.

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Preposition

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fere

  1. alternative form of fãrã.
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Galician

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Verb

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fere

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ferir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ferir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *feros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-o- (“tight, close by”), a derivative of *dʰer- (“to hold”).

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Adverb

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ferē̆ (not comparable)

  1. roughly; approximately; mostly; more or less; around; about (close enough)
    Synonym: fermē
    sōlis ferē̆ occāsū
    around sundown
    • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 1.6.2:
      haec habēbam ferē̆ quae tē scīre vellem
      this is more or less everything I wanted to tell you
    • LVCAS III:XXIII:
      Incipiēbat autem Jēsūs annōrum esse ferē̆ trīginta,...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. nearly; practically; virtually; almost; quite (indistinguishable from)
    Synonyms: fermē, prope, paene, iū̆xtā
    haud ferē̆ quisquam
    hardly anybody
  3. often; normally; usually; generally; as a rule, in most cases; mainly (in general)
    Synonyms: fermē, plērumque, vulgō
    ut ferē̆ fit
    as often happens; as usual
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fere

  1. vocative masculine singular of ferus

Noun

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fere

  1. vocative singular of ferus

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fēre

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

References

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Further reading

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  • “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[1], 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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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    From Old English fǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *fāru, from Proto-Germanic *fērō.

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    Noun

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    fere (plural feris)

    1. fear
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    Descendants
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    • English: fear
    • Scots: fere, feir
    • Yola: vear
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    Etymology 2

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    From Old English feorh, from Proto-West Germanic *ferh, from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz.

    Noun

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    fere (uncountable)

    1. life

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    Norman

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    Etymology

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    fé (“iron”) +‎ -er

    Verb

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    fere

    1. (Sark) to iron

    Nupe

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    Etymology

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    Compare Yoruba fèrè.

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    Noun

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    fèrè (plural fèrèzhì)

    1. small whistle; flute

    Old English

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    Etymology 1

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      Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”)

      Adjective

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      fēre

      1. passable, able to go
      2. (of persons) able, fit for action or travel
      3. (of ships) seaworthy
      Declension
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      Declension of fēre — Strong
      Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
      Nominative fēre fēru, fēro fēre
      Accusative fērne fēre fēre
      Genitive fēres fērre fēres
      Dative fērum fērre fērum
      Instrumental fēre fērre fēre
      Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
      Nominative fēre fēra, fēre fēru, fēro
      Accusative fēre fēra, fēre fēru, fēro
      Genitive fērra fērra fērra
      Dative fērum fērum fērum
      Instrumental fērum fērum fērum
      Declension of fēre — Weak
      Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
      Nominative fēra fēre fēre
      Accusative fēran fēran fēre
      Genitive fēran fēran fēran
      Dative fēran fēran fēran
      Instrumental fēran fēran fēran
      Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
      Nominative fēran fēran fēran
      Accusative fēran fēran fēran
      Genitive fērra, fērena fērra, fērena fērra, fērena
      Dative fērum fērum fērum
      Instrumental fērum fērum fērum
      Derived terms
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      Descendants
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      • Middle English: fēre
        • English: fere, fear (“able”) (dialectal)

      Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      Noun

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      fere n

      1. dative, instrumental of ferh
        • c950-1000 CE, unknown, Kentish Psalm:[1]
          He fromne ferdrinc fere beserode
          he deprived the brave warrior of life

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      1. ^ Christian Wilhelm Michael Grein, editor (1858), “XI: Psalm L”, in Bibliothek der Angelsächsischen Poesie, Zweiter Band. (quotation in Old English; overall work in German), Göttingen: Georg H. Wigand, page 277, line 22

      Etymology 3

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      Verb

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      fēre

      1. first-person singular present indicative of fēran

      Old French

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      Verb

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      fere

      1. alternative form of faire

      Conjugation

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      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.

          Conjugation of fere (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
      simple compound
      infinitive fere avoir fet
      gerund en fesant gerund of avoir + past participle
      present participle fesant
      past participle fet
      person singular plural
      first second third first second third
      indicative jo tu il nos vos il
      simple
      tenses       		present faz, fe fes fet femes, fesons fetes font
      imperfect fesoie, feseie fesoies, feseies fesoit, feseit fesiiens, fesiens fesiiez, fesiez fesoient, feseient
      preterite fis feṣis fist feṣimes feṣistes firent
      future ferai feras fera ferons feroiz, fereiz, ferez feront
      conditional feroie, fereie feroies, fereies feroit, fereit feriiens, feriens feriiez, feriez feroient, fereient
      compound
      tenses       		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
      pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
      past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
      future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
      conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
      subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
      simple
      tenses       		present face faces face faciens, façons faciez facent
      imperfect feṣisse feṣisses feṣist feṣissons, feṣissiens feṣissoiz, feṣissez, feṣissiez feṣissent
      compound
      tenses       		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
      pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
      imperative – tu – nos vos –
      — fa — femes, fesons fetes —

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      • Hyphenation: fe‧re

      Verb

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      fere

      1. inflection of ferir:
        1. third-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular imperative

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      Kadato Sultan

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      fere (Jawi فيري)

      1. (intransitive) to ascend
      2. (intransitive, transitive) to climb
      3. (intransitive, of the Sultan's palace) to go, go to, enter
        ana ifere toma kadato ― they entered into the palace

      Conjugation

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      Conjugation of fere
      singular plural
      inclusive exclusive
      1st person tofere fofere mifere
      2nd person nofere nifere
      3rd
      person       		masculine ofere ifere
      yofere (archaic)
      feminine mofere
      neuter ifere

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      • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
      • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

      Yoruba

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      Fèrè (1)
      Fèrè tó ń léfòó lójú omi (3)

      Etymology

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      Cognates include Nupe fèrè

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      Noun

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      fèrè

      1. (music) flute; small type of whistle
      2. (soccer) whistle
        Synonym: òfé
      3. balloon
        Synonym: bààlúù

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