chaere

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαῖρε (khaîre).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰae̯.re/, [ˈkʰäe̯rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.re/, [ˈkɛːre]

Interjection

chaere

1. hail!, hello!

Usage notes

• Found mostly in poetry, where it is rarely used.
• Forms that would correspond to the plural χαίρετε (khaírete) as well as the dual χαίρετον (khaíreton) are not attested in Classical Latin, but as all attestations of chaere are contextually singular, there is no evidence that Latin chaere could be used where Greek χαῖρε (khaîre) would have been inappropriate in number.

References

• “chaere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chaere in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• chaere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

chaere

1. Alternative form of chayer