mare

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See also: Mare, maré, Maré, marè, Marē, marę, måre, and Märe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”) (compare Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), from *marhaz (“horse”) (compare Old English mearh).

Pronunciation

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  • Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

Noun

mare (plural mares)

  1. An adult female horse.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  2. (UK, derogatory, 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?
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
  • (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse), pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.
Translations

Etymology 2

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(deprecated template usage)

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mare (plural mares)

  1. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
  2. (UK, colloquial) (clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
    I'm having a complete mare today.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈmeːɹi/, /ˈmɑːɹi/

Noun

mare (plural maria)

  1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
  2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

Noun

mare f (definite marja)

  1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
  2. strawberry tree fruit

Derived terms

Aromanian

Adjective

mare

  1. Alternative form of mari

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. mother
    mare subrogada ― surrogate mother

Further reading

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare m

  1. sea

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

Noun

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

  1. incubus, succubus

Declension

Declension of mare
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mare maren marer marerne
genitive mares marens marers marernes

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. (archaic) message, report, story
    Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal
  2. (archaic) rumor
    Synonym: gerucht

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Noun

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

  1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
  2. nightmare
  3. witch
Derived terms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mare

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Akin to Old High German meri (“lake, sea”) (German Meer), Old Saxon meri, Old English mere (“pond, pool, mere”) (English mere). More at mere.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. puddle
  2. pool

Further reading

Anagrams

Istriot

Etymology 1

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare

  1. sea
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin māter.

Noun

mare f

  1. mother

See also

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare m (plural mari)

  1. sea

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

  1. sea
    • (Can we date this quote?) National motto of Canada:
      a marī usque ad mare|from sea to sea
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mare maria
Genitive maris marium
Dative marī maribus
Accusative mare maria
Ablative marī maribus
Vocative mare maria
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants

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Etymology 2

Noun

(deprecated template usage) mare

  1. ablative singular of mās

References

  • “mare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit

Marau

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz.

Adjective

mâre

  1. famous, famed
  2. honoured, prestigious
  3. well-known
Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

Noun

mâre f

  1. fame, famousness
  2. rumour
  3. message
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: maar, mare
  • Limburgish: maer

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

māre ?

  1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Munggui

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare

  1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. (France, Guernsey) pool

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare f (nominative plural maran)

  1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

Declension

Declension of mare (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mare maran
accusative maran maran
genitive maran marena
dative maran marum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Adjective

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

  1. evil; bad

Adverb

mare

  1. evilly; badly

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Verb

mare

  1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

Papuma

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese

Verb

mare

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Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Several theories exist. One possibility is Latin maiōrem, masculine and feminine accusative singular of maiōr (“bigger”), irregularly clipped before the [j] → [d͡ʒ] sound change (the regular form would be *măjoare). Compare also Dalmatian maur (“large”). Another proposed etymology is Latin marem, accusative of mās (“male, man”) (however, the reason for the shift in meaning or the exact semantic development is uncertain; it may be because men are generally larger than women, or from a crossing with magnus, or more likely from use in idiomatic expressions (with equivalents found in many languages) such as s-a făcut mare, which can mean "he has grown up/grown older/become a man or adult", and this may have been eventually extended to mean "he/she has grown bigger", with the sense of the word shifting from "man/adult" to "big"). Less likely is the influence from mare (“sea”)[1]. Also found in Aromanian as mari (“big, large”).

Adjective

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

  1. big, large, great
    Antonym: mic
    O mare mare. ― A big sea.
  2. great, mighty
    Un om mare. ― A great man.
Inflection
Declension of mare
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite mare mare mari mari
definite marele marea marii marile
genitive/
dative 		indefinite mare mari mari mari
definite marelui marii marilor marilor
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mare f (plural mări)

  1. sea
    Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.
    When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.
Declension
Declension of mare
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) mare marea (niște) mări mările
genitive/dative (unei) mări mării (unor) mări mărilor
vocative mare, mareo mărilor

References

  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/mare

Sonsorolese

Noun

mare

  1. boy

Tahitian

Noun

mare

  1. (archaic) cough

Usage notes

Use hota.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin māter, mātrem. Compare Italian madre

Noun

mare f (invariable)

  1. mother

See also

Zazaki

Zazaki Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مارا.

Noun

mare m or f

  1. marriage
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