lare

See also: Lare, larë, and lāre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: lair, layer (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

See lore.

Noun

lare

1. (obsolete) Lore; learning.

Etymology 2

See lair

Noun

lare (plural lares)

1. (obsolete) Pasture; feed.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     More hard for hungry steed t 'abstaine from pleasant lare

Verb

lare (third-person singular simple present lares, present participle laring, simple past and past participle lared)

1. (obsolete) To feed; to fatten.

Etymology 3

Noun

lare (plural lares)

1. Obsolete form of lair.

Anagrams

• Arel, Earl, Elar, Lear, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lear, rale, real

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Lar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʁ/

Noun

lare m (plural lares)

1. (Roman mythology) Lar

   Synonym: pénates

Further reading

• “lare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Javanese

Noun

lare

1. Dated spelling of laré. Romanization of ꦭꦫꦺ.

Latin

Noun

lare

1. vocative singular of larus
2. ablative singular of lār

Middle English

Noun

lare

1. Alternative form of lore

Old English

Noun

lāre

1. inflection of lār:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō. Cognates include Old English lār and Old Saxon lēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːre/

Noun

lāre f

1. teaching, doctrine

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Lere, Leere
• West Frisian: leare

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN