oker

See also: øker

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English wōcor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃 (wōkrs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax.

Alternative forms

• ocker, occur, ockar, okir, okkir

Noun

oker (plural okers)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.

Verb

oker (third-person singular simple present okers, present participle okering, simple past and past participle okered)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.

Derived terms

• okerer
• okering

Etymology 2

Noun

oker (countable and uncountable, plural okers)

1. (mineralogy) Obsolete form of ochre.

Etymology 3

Noun

oker (plural okers)

1. Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”)
   • 1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece (volumes 1-2, page 296)

     Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two pounds and a half,) which will cost him twenty-four leptas; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Kore, kero, kore, roke

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• oker:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːkər

Noun

oker m (plural okers)

1. ochre (mineral)

Noun

oker n (uncountable)

1. ochre (colour)

Anagrams

• roek, roke

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ochre”).

Noun

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okere or okre or okrer, definite plural okerne or okrene)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

Derived terms

• okergul

References

• “oker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “oker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós).

Noun

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okrar, definite plural okrane)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

Derived terms

• okergul

References

• “oker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

oker m (Cyrillic spelling окер)

1. ochre