nacre

English

Alternative forms

• nacker (obsolete)
• naker (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French nacre, from Late Latin nacchara, perhaps from Arabic نقر (naqqāra).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈneɪkə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈneɪkəɹ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)

Noun

nacre (plural nacres)

Nacre.

1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish [...].

2. A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. [from 17th c.]

Translations

pearly substance on the interior of shells

Bosnian: sedef (bs) m. Bulgarian: седеф (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 珍珠母 (cmn) (zhēnzhūmǔ), 珧 (cmn) (yáo) Dutch: parelmoer (nl) n. Finnish: helmiäinen (fi), helmiäisaine (fi) French: nacre (fr) f. German: Perlmutt (de) n.

Korean: 진주층 (jinjucheung) Macedonian: седеф (mk) (sédef) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: седеф m. Roman: sedef m. Spanish: nácar m. Turkish: sedef (tr)

Anagrams

• caner, Caren, crane, rance

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

nacre f. (plural nacres)

1. mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)

Verb

nacre

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

Anagrams

• ancre, ancré, cerna, crâne, écran, encra, rance