nare

See also: näre

English

Noun

nare (plural nares)

1. (rare, anatomy) A nostril
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

Derived terms

• narial

Usage notes

The Latin declension, naris (singular) and nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares and naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, Webster's 1913 enters it, and Samuel Butler's use of it in Hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of Edgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to "The Folio Club". It is likely that the singular nare began as the back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an English regular plural, which in turn caused that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine and narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an "error" for naris.

Anagrams

• Arne, EARN, Earn, Near, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, near, rean

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Aromanian

Noun

nare f

1. Alternative form of nari

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Basque

Adjective

nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)

1. calm

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

nare

1. (deprecated template usage) Inflected form of naar

Anagrams

• erna

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.re/, [ˈn̺äːr̺e̞]
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: nà‧re

Noun

nare f pl

1. Obsolete form of nari (“nostrils”).

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Japanese

Romanization

nare

1. Rōmaji transcription of なれ

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) nāre

1. present active infinitive of nō

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Middle English

Adjective

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

Adverb

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀦𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• नरे (Devanagari script)
• নরে (Bengali script)
• නරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• နရေ or ၼရေ (Burmese script)
• นเร or นะเร (Thai script)
• ᨶᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ນເຣ or ນະເຣ (Lao script)
• នរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄚𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

nare

1. inflection of nara (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

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Venetian

Verb

nare

1. Alternative form of ndar