ware

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See also: Ware, wãrẽ, warē, wäre, and -ware

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

  1. (poetic) Aware.
Usage notes[edit]

Replaced by intensified form aware.

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

ware (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wer-, whence also ward. Cognate with Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use”) and Swedish vara, with the same meaning.

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Noun[edit]

ware (usually uncountable, plural wares)

  1. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
    • 1923, John Lord, Capital and steam-power, 1750–1800‎[1]:
      Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.
    • 2002 March 28, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.
    • 2011, Tonya Kappes, Carpe Bead'em‎[2]:
      What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.
    • 2012, Julie Watson, Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island‎[3], page 179:
      Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.
  2. (in the plural) See wares.
  3. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
    damascene ware, tole ware
  4. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
  5. (Ireland) Crockery.
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Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

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Verb[edit]

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
    • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
      Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
    • c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː
      Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.
    • c. 1470, The Macro Playsː
      ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.
    • 1987, Kangs in Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
      Ware cleaners.
  2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
    Ware thee. ― Watch yourself.
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Adjective[edit]

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

  1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
    • 1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar)​, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer]; Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Thyrde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latymer whyche He Preached before the Kynge [Edward VI], wythin Hys Graces Palayce at Westminster, the XXII. Daye of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, OCLC 12219849, folio 39, verso:
      He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Timothy 4:15:
      Of whom be thou ware also.
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Etymology 4[edit]

From Middle English *wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ware

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed.
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Etymology 5[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Verb[edit]

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

  1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

Etymology 6[edit]

Verb[edit]

ware

  1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
    • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
      A larg concors ware standing round

References[edit]

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “ware”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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 ware in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Verb[edit]

ware

  1. imperfect subjunctive of wees

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ware

  1. Inflected form of waar

Verb[edit]

ware

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of zijn
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waren

Hausa[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /wáː.ɽèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [wáː.ɽèː]

Verb[edit]

wārḕ (grade 4)

  1. to separate things, to set things aside
  2. to secede

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

ware

  1. Rōmaji transcription of われ

Maori[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ware

  1. ignorant

Noun[edit]

ware

  1. saliva

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *warō, probably related to *waraz (“wary, watchful”).

Noun[edit]

wāre f

  1. merchandise, product
Inflection[edit]
Weak feminine
Singular Plural
Nominative wāre wāren
Accusative wāre wāren
Genitive wāren wāren
Dative wāre, wāren wāren
Descendants[edit]
  • Dutch: waar
  • Limburgish: waar

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

wâre

  1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of wēsen

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

ware

  1. Alternative form of veir

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

ware

  1. Alternative form of werre

Pennsylvania German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German wërden, from Old High German werdan. Compare German werden.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ware

  1. to become

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of ware
infinitive ware
past participle iss ware
future tense waerd ware
subjunctive daet ware
present tense
1st person singular wa
2nd person singular wascht
3rd person singular watt
1st person  plural ware
2nd person plural watt
3rd person plural ware
imperative du war, dihr watt

Scots[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [wer], [war], [voːr]

Noun[edit]

ware (plural wares)

  1. spring, springtime
  2. cold weather in springtime
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Etymology 2[edit]

Ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ware (plural wares)

  1. a type of seaweed
Derived terms[edit]

Yola[edit]

Verb[edit]

ware

  1. Alternative form of war (“were”)
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:
      Aar gentrize ware bibbern.
      Their gentry were quaking.

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84
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