mare

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Noun 1.1.2.1 Translations 1.1.2.2 Coordinate terms 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Pronunciation 1.3.2 Noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Corsican 3.1 Noun 4 Danish 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Related terms 4.2.2 Inflection 5 Dutch 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Synonyms 5.2.2 Related terms 6 French 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Noun 6.4 Anagrams 7 Italian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 7.2.1 Related terms 7.2.2 See also 8 Latin 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Noun 8.2.1 Inflection 8.2.2 Derived terms 8.3 Noun 9 Old English 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Pronunciation 9.3 Noun 9.3.1 Declension 9.3.2 Descendants 10 Romanian 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Pronunciation 10.3 Adjective 10.3.1 Inflection 10.4 Noun 10.4.1 Declension 11 Sonsorolese 11.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English mere, feminine of mearh 'horse' (cf. German Mähre, Dutch merrie), from Proto-Germanic, from Iranian, akin to Sanskrit máryas 'stallion, young man'.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /mɛː/
• (US) SAMPA: /mE@/, IPA: /'mɛ(ə)ɻ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

[edit] Noun

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
2. (British, 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?

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[edit] Coordinate terms

• (adult female horse): colt, filly, foal, pony, stallion

[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English mare, from Old English mera, mære, from Proto-Germanic *maron (cf. Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara 'incubus, nightmare', Danish mare, Swedish mara), from Indo-European, akin to Polish zmora 'nightmare', Czech mura 'nightmare, moth', Old Irish Morrígain 'queen of elves'.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /mɛː/
• (US) SAMPA: /mE@/, IPA: /'mɛ(ə)ɻ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

[edit] Noun

mare (plural mares)

1. (now obsolete except dialectal) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
2. (British, colloquial) (Shortening of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

[edit] Derived terms

• nightmare

[edit] Etymology 3

From Latin mare (“‘sea’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /mA:reI/, IPA: /'marɛ/

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mare (plural maria)

1. (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aemr
• amer.
• Erma
• ream

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[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology

From Latin mater.

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mare f.

1. mother

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mare m.

1. sea

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

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mare c. (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. incubus, succubus

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• mareridt n.

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[edit] Dutch

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mare f. (plural: maren, diminutive: maartje)

1. (formal) message, report, story
2. (formal) rumor
3. depression in non-volcanic stone, cf maar

[edit] Synonyms

• tijding, gerucht, verslag, verhaal

[edit] Related terms

• vermaard, vermaarde

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse marr.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɑʁ/
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mare f. (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aemr
• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

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[edit] Italian

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmare]

[edit] Noun

mare m. (plural mari)

1. sea

[edit] Related terms

• ammarare
• frutto di mare
• lupo di mare
• marea
• mareggiata
• maremoto
• maretta
• marina
• marinaio
• marinara
• marinare
• marino

[edit] See also

• oceano - ocean

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *móri.

[edit] Noun

mare (genitive maris); n, third declension

1. sea

[edit] Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mare	maria
genitive	maris	marium
dative	marī	maribus
accusative	mare	maria
ablative	marī	maribus
vocative	mare	maria

[edit] Derived terms

• Mare Balticum
• Mare Germanicum
• marīnus
• maritimus

[edit] Noun

mare m.

1. ablative singular of mas (man).

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *maron-.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɑre/

[edit] Noun

mare f.

1. nightmare, evil spirit

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	mare	maran
accusative	maran	maran
genitive	maran	marena
dative	maran	marum

[edit] Descendants

• English: mare

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[edit] Romanian

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Latin mare

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmare]

[edit] Adjective

mare ^{2 nom/acc forms}

1. big, large, great

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mare f. (plural mări)

1. sea

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[edit] Sonsorolese

[edit] Noun

mare

1. boy