English

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Noun

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pere

  1. Alternative spelling of père

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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pere

  1. plural of peer

Czech

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Verb

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pere

  1. third-person singular present of prát

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French père.

Noun

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pere m (plural peren, diminutive pereke n)

  1. (Belgium) father
    (Brabantian)
    Ik tegen m'n neefke: "Zeg, Viggo, bleitsmoel, gadis aan ave pere z'n broek hange jong, trezebees!"
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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per +‎ -e

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Adverb

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pere

  1. by means...

Usage notes

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  • Used as part of the phrase pere de.

Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *pereh.

Noun

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pere (genitive pere, partitive peret)

  1. family

Declension

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Declension of pere (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pere pered
accusative nom.
gen. pere
genitive perede
partitive peret peresid
illative perre
peresse
peredesse
inessive peres peredes
elative perest peredest
allative perele peredele
adessive perel peredel
ablative perelt peredelt
translative pereks peredeks
terminative pereni peredeni
essive perena peredena
abessive pereta peredeta
comitative perega peredega

Further reading

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  • pere”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • pere in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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per +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛrɛ]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧re

Noun

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pere

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of per

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pere
accusative perét
dative perének
instrumental perével
causal-final peréért
translative perévé
terminative peréig
essive-formal pereként
essive-modal peréül
inessive perében
superessive perén
adessive perénél
illative perébe
sublative perére
allative peréhez
elative peréből
delative peréről
ablative perétől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
peréé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
perééi

Ingrian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *pereh. Cognates include Finnish perhe and Estonian pere.

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Noun

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pere

  1. family
  2. swarm

Declension

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Declension of pere (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative pere perreet
genitive perreen perrein
partitive perettä perreitä
illative perreesse perreisse
inessive perrees perreis
elative perreest perreist
allative perreelle perreille
adessive perreel perreil
ablative perreelt perreilt
translative perreeks perreiks
essive perreennä, perreen perreinnä, perrein
exessive1) perreent perreint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
Soikkola declension of pere (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative pere perrehet,
perreet
genitive perrehen perrehiin
partitive perettä,
pereht
perrehiä
illative perrehesse perrehisse
inessive perrehees perrehiis
elative perrehest perrehist
allative perrehelle perrehille
adessive perreheel perrehiil
ablative perrehelt perrehilt
translative perreheks perrehiks
essive perrehennä,
perreheen
perrehinnä,
perrehiin
exessive1) perrehent perrehint
1) Obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

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References

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  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 64
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 398
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[3], →ISBN, page 74

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.re/
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: pé‧re

Noun

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pere f

  1. plural of pera

Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin pater.

Noun

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pere m (plural peresc)

  1. father

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pira.

Noun

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pēre f

  1. pear

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: peer
    • Afrikaans: peer
    • Jersey Dutch: pêr
    • Aukan: peli
    • Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)
  • Limburgish: paer
  • West Flemish: peire

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Middle English

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peres

Etymology 1

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From Old English pere, peru, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛːr(ə)/
  • (mainly Early ME) IPA(key): /ˈpɛr(ə)/

Noun

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pere (plural peres or peren)

  1. A pear (fruit of Pyrus communis)
  2. A thing of little import or worth.
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Etymology 2

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From Medieval Latin pera, from Old Northern French pira, from Vulgar Latin *petricus.

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pere

  1. (rare) A pillar or stand of a bridge.
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Etymology 3

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From Old French per and Anglo-Norman peir, from Latin pār.

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pere (plural peres)

  1. A peer; one who is equal to or like another.
  2. A rival, enemy, or competitor; one who is in opposition.
  3. An individual who is of the same social class or standing as another.
  4. An associate or collaborator; one who works or associates with another.
  5. A member of the nobility or ruling class of a country or settlement.
  6. (anatomy, rare) A body part connected or concomitant with another.
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Adjective

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pere

  1. The same; having no differences from something else.
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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French pere, from Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

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pere m (plural peres)

  1. father

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Neapolitan

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Noun

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pere m (plural piere)

  1. Alternative spelling of pede (foot)

Northern Sotho

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Noun

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pere

  1. horse

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *peru

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pere f

  1. (fruit) pear

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From earlier pedre, from Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

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pere oblique singularm (oblique plural peres, nominative singular pere, nominative plural pere)

  1. father (male family member)

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pere m

  1. (Christianity, may be capitalized) Father (God)

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Romanian

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Noun

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pere f pl

  1. plural of pară

Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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pere (Cyrillic spelling пере)

  1. third-person singular present of prati

Slovak

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Noun

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pere

  1. locative singular of pero

Sotho

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Afrikaans perd, from Dutch paard, from Middle Dutch pert, from Old Dutch *pered, from Late Latin paraverēdus.

Noun

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pere class 9/10 (plural lipere)

  1. horse

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English pear or Afrikaans peer, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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pere class 9/10 (plural lipere)

  1. pear

Spanish

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Etymology

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Contraction of espere.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpeɾe/ [ˈpe.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -eɾe
  • Syllabification: pe‧re

Interjection

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pere

  1. (colloquial, Colombia) wait

Tocharian B

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *per- (to go through, across). Compare Sanskrit पर्वन् (parvan).

Noun

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pere

  1. a plant stem, stalk

Further reading

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  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

Votic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *pereh.

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Noun

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pere

  1. family

Inflection

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Declension of pere (type XIV/terve, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pere perred
genitive perre perreje, perrei
partitive perette perreite, perrei
illative perrese, perre perreise
inessive perrez perreiz
elative perresse perreisse
allative perrele perreile
adessive perrelle perreille
ablative perrelte perreilte
translative perressi perreissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

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  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pere”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Walloon

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Etymology

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From Old French pere, pedre, from Latin pater, patrem.

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pere m (plural peres)

  1. father

Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Adverb sense derives from ideophone sense

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /k͡pé.ɾé/, /k͡pè.ɾé/

Ideophone

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péré or pèré

  1. (of an object) being luxuriant or lush
  2. (of an object) being only some amount or quantity

Adverb

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péré

  1. only
    ẹyọ mẹ́ta péréOnly three entities

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  • Only used with numbers
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Zazaki

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Etymology

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From Persian پاره (pâre).

Noun

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pere (pâre)

  1. money