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spere (plural speres)
- (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
- prees, peers, Reeps, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, Perse, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, per se, Serpe, perse
From Middle High German sperren, from Old High German sperran (“to put up rafters, beams; to barricade”), from sper (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
spere
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.
spere
- third-person singular future of seprat
- Synonym: sepere
From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
spere f or n
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- “spere, sperre”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Inherited from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
spere (plural speres or sperren)
- A spear or lance.
- (Christianity) The Lance of Longinus.
- A barb or point.
- A spearman; a soldier who wields a spear.
- “spēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Borrowed from Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).
spere (plural speres)
- (astronomy) The cosmos, outer space
- A globe or sphere representing outer space.
- (astronomy) The supposed outer sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile.
- sphere, ball, a spherical object.
- “spẹ̄re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
From Medieval Latin spera.
spere (plural speres)
- English: spere
- “spēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
spere
- Alternative form of sparre
spere
- Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)
From Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, Old High German sper (German Speer), Old Norse spjǫr.
spere n (nominative plural speru)
Strong a-stem:
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