parer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pare +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

parer (plural parers)

  1. A tool used to pare things.
  2. (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
    • 2013 December 6, Russell W. Belk, Linda Price, Lisa Penaloza, Consumer Culture Theory, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
      A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin parēre. Displaced as a verb by the doublet parèixer (“to seem”); compare Spanish parecer (“to seem; opinion”). Also compare Friulian parè, Italian parere, Romanian părere.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

parer m (plural parers)

  1. view, opinion
    segons el meu parer ― in my opinion
    • 2003, Ferran Grau Codina, La Universitat de València i l’humanisme: Studia humanitatis i renovació cultural a Europa i el nou món, Universidad de Valencia, →ISBN, page 431:
      Encara que el Papa Pau III era del mateix parer, tot i això, l'emperador imposà el seu criteri.
      Although Pope Paul III was of the same view, the emperor nevertheless imposed his own opinion.
    • 2021 April 14, Cristian Segura, “Ada Colau i Twitter: el risc d’unes xarxes socials massa personals”, in El País‎[1]:
      La prova, segons el seu parer, és que l'alcaldessa no ha tancat encara el compte de Twitter.
      The evidence, in his opinion, is that the mayor hasn't shut her Twitter account.

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Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French, from Latin parāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

parer

  1. to adorn; to bedeck
    Paré de fleurs. ― Adorned with flowers.
  2. to fend off
    • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 7:
      Ce n’est qu’en fuyant qu’on pare de tels coups.
      Only by fleeing may one fend off such blows.
  3. (fencing) to parry
  4. (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of parer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple parer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple parant
/pa.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle paré
/pa.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present pare
/paʁ/ 		pares
/paʁ/ 		pare
/paʁ/ 		parons
/pa.ʁɔ̃/ 		parez
/pa.ʁe/ 		parent
/paʁ/
imperfect parais
/pa.ʁɛ/ 		parais
/pa.ʁɛ/ 		parait
/pa.ʁɛ/ 		parions
/pa.ʁjɔ̃/ 		pariez
/pa.ʁje/ 		paraient
/pa.ʁɛ/
past historic2 parai
/pa.ʁe/ 		paras
/pa.ʁa/ 		para
/pa.ʁa/ 		parâmes
/pa.ʁam/ 		parâtes
/pa.ʁat/ 		parèrent
/pa.ʁɛʁ/
future parerai
/pa.ʁə.ʁe/ 		pareras
/pa.ʁə.ʁa/ 		parera
/pa.ʁə.ʁa/ 		parerons
/pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ 		parerez
/pa.ʁə.ʁe/ 		pareront
/pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional parerais
/pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		parerais
/pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		parerait
/pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		parerions
/pa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		pareriez
/pa.ʁə.ʁje/ 		pareraient
/pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present pare
/paʁ/ 		pares
/paʁ/ 		pare
/paʁ/ 		parions
/pa.ʁjɔ̃/ 		pariez
/pa.ʁje/ 		parent
/paʁ/
imperfect2 parasse
/pa.ʁas/ 		parasses
/pa.ʁas/ 		parât
/pa.ʁa/ 		parassions
/pa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		parassiez
/pa.ʁa.sje/ 		parassent
/pa.ʁas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — pare
/paʁ/ 		— parons
/pa.ʁɔ̃/ 		parez
/pa.ʁe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Interlingua[edit]

Verb[edit]

parer

  1. to seem, appear to be

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of parer
infinitive parer
participle present perfect
parente parite
active simple perfect
present pare ha parite
past pareva habeva parite
future parera habera parite
conditional parerea haberea parite
imperative pare

Derived terms[edit]

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

parer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of parō

Venetian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin parēre, present active infinitive of pāreō (“I appear, I am visible, apparent”).

Verb[edit]

parer

  1. (transitive) to seem (look like)

Conjugation[edit]

  • Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of parer (second conjugation)
infinitive parer
auxiliary verb aver gerund paréndo
past participle parato
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative mi ti eło / eła noialtri / noialtre voialtri / voialtre łuri / łore
present paro (te) pari (el/ła) pare parémo parì (i/łe) pare
imperfect paréa (te) parivi (el/ła) paréa parévimo parivi (i/łe) paréa
future pararò (te) pararè (el/ła) pararà pararémo pararè (i/łe) pararà
conditional mi ti eło / eła noialtri / noialtre voialtri / voialtre łuri / łore
present pararìa (te) pararisi (el/ła) pararìa pararìsimo pararisi (i/łe) pararìa
subjunctive che mi che ti che eło / eła che noialtri / noialtre che voialtri / voialtre che łuri / łore
present para (te) pari (el/ła) para parémo parì (i/łe) para
imperfect parése (te) parisi (el/ła) parése parésimo parisi (i/łe) parése
imperative — ti eło / eła noialtri / noialtre voialtri / voialtre łuri / łore
— (te) pari (el/ła) para parémo parì (i/łe) para
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