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語源 1

From 中期英語 fere, from (Northumbrian) 古期英語 fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra (whence also 中期英語 y-fere).

別の表記

• pheer, feer

名詞

fere (plural feres)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.

2. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:

     And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.

   • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind:

     The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.

   • 1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story:

     What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.

派生語

• ferede

語源 2

From 中期英語 fer, from Anglo-Norman fer, from Old French fier. Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

形容詞

fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

1. (obsolete) Fierce.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405:

     Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!

アナグラム

• -free, Free, feer, free, reef

語源 1

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”)

形容詞

fēre

1. passable, able to go
2. (of persons) able, fit for action or travel
3. (of ships) seaworthy

語形変化

派生語

• langfēre

関連する語

派生した語

• Middle English: fēre
  • English: fere, fear (“able”) (dialectal)

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfe.re/
• 韻: -e.re

名詞

fere n

1. dative, instrumental of ferh
   • c950-1000 CE, unknown, Kentish Psalm:

     He fromne ferdrinc fere beserode

     he deprived the brave warrior of life

参照

語源 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfeː.re/
• 韻: -eː.re

動詞

fēre

1. first-person singular present indicative of fēran

別の表記

• fer, feer, feere

発音

• IPA: /fɛːr/

名詞

fere (plural feris)

1. fear

関連する語

• feren

派生した語

• English: fear
• Scots: fere, feir
• Yola: vear

参照

• “fēr, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From 古期英語 feorh, from Proto-West Germanic *ferh, from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz.

名詞

fere (uncountable)

1. life

参照

• “fẹ̄re, n.(4)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfɛ.reː], [ˈfɛ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɛː.re]
• Note: normally undergoes iambic shortening of the last syllable in Plautus, but kept long in Classical dactylic verse for archaic effect; it becomes short again in Late Latin.

副詞

ferē̆ (no comparative, superlative fermē)

1. roughly; approximately; mostly; more or less; around; about (close enough)

   Synonym: fermē

   sōlis ferē̆ occāsū

   around sundown

   • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 1.6.2:

     haec habēbam ferē̆ quae tē scīre vellem

     this is more or less everything I wanted to tell you

   • LVCAS III:XXIII:

     Incipiēbat autem Jēsūs annōrum esse ferē̆ trīginta,...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. nearly; practically; virtually; almost; quite (indistinguishable from)

   Synonyms: fermē, prope, paene, iū̆xtā

   haud ferē̆ quisquam

   hardly anybody

3. often; normally; usually; generally; as a rule, in most cases; mainly (in general)

   Synonyms: fermē, plērumque, vulgō

   ut ferē̆ fit

   as often happens; as usual

派生語

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfɛ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɛː.re]

形容詞

fere

1. vocative masculine singular of ferus

名詞

fere

1. vocative singular of ferus

語源 3

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfeː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɛː.re]

動詞

fēre

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

参照

• “ferē” on page 752 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fere”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • (ambiguous) to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    
  • (ambiguous) as usually happens: ut fit, ita ut fit, ut fere fit
    
  • (ambiguous) he spoke (very much) as follows: haec (fere) dixit
    
  • (ambiguous) this is very much what Cicero said: haec Ciceronis fere
    

接尾辞

-fere

1. vocative masculine singular of -ferus