seer

See also: SEER and şeer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːɹ/, /siː.əɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -iːə(ɹ)
• Homophones: sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. One who sees something; an eyewitness.
2. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.

Translations

someone who sees something; an eyewitness

• Dutch: ooggetuige (nl) m
• French: témoin (fr) m
• Galician: testemuña (gl) f
• Georgian: მხედველი (mxedveli)
• Latvian: aculiecinieks m
• Persian: بیننده‎‎ (fa) (binande)

• Portuguese: testemunha (pt) f
• Russian: очеви́дец (ru) m (očevídec), свиде́тель (ru) m (svidételʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: очевидац m

  Roman: očevidac (sh)

someone who foretells the future

• Czech: jasnovidec (cs), prorok
• Dutch: ziener (nl), helderziende (nl) m
• Finnish: näkijä (fi), tietäjä (fi)
• French: voyant (fr) m, voyante (fr) f
• Galician: vidente m, f
• Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველი (c̣inasc̣armeṭq̇veli)
• German: Seher (de) m, Seherin (de) f, Wahrsager (de) m, Wahrsagerin (de) f, Weissager m, Weissagerin f, Hellseher (de) m, Hellseherin (de) f, Visionär (de) m, Visionärin (de) f, Prophet (de) m, Prophetin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μάντις m (mántis)

• Hindi: (rishi) ऋषि (hi) m (r̥ṣi)
• Hungarian: látnok (hu)
• Irish: fáidh m
• Italian: veggente (it), chiaroveggente, indovino (it)
• Latin: fatidica f

• Latvian: pareģis, zīlētājs m
• Lithuanian: pranašas, aiškiaregys
• Persian: پیشگو‎‎ (fa) (pišgu)
• Polish: jasnowidz (pl)
• Portuguese: vidente (pt)
• Russian: прорица́тель (ru) m (proricátelʹ), прови́дец (ru) m (provídec)
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhsear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: видовњак, пророк m, пророчица f, видјелац

  Roman: vidovnjak (sh), pròrok (sh) m, pròročica (sh) f, vidjelac (sh)

• Slovak: jasnovidec, prorok, veštec
• Spanish: vidente (es) m, f, adivino (es) m, adivina (es) f
• Swedish: siare (sv) c, sierska (sv) (only female)
• Volapük: (♂♀) visionan, (♂) hivisionan, (♀) jivisionan

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SERE, eres, rees, rese, sere

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Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːər/, [ˈseːˀɐ]
• Rhymes: -eːˀɐ

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

Declension of seer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	seer	seeren	seere	seerne
genitive	seers	seerens	seeres	seernes

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

Further reading

• seer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sêer

1. painful, sore
2. sick

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêre

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch sēr, from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Noun

sêer n

1. pain, ache
2. sorrow, emotional pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Further reading

• “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Middle English

Noun

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +‎ -er

Noun

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

See also

• sjåar (Nynorsk)

References

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sedēre, present active infinitive of sedeō.

Verb

seer

1. to be

   Um ric'home a que um trobador" by Afonso Sanches, Lord of Albuquerque

   • vi-o seer em um logar peior.

   (I saw him being in a worse place.)

Descendants

• Galician: ser
• Portuguese: ser