mare

See also: Mare, maré, Maré, marè, Marē, måre, and Märe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mere, miere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”) (compare Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), from *marhaz (“horse”) (compare Old English mearh).

Pronunciation

Noun

mare (plural mares)

  1. An adult female horse.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 035:
      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  2. (Britain, pejorative, slang) A foolish woman.
    • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple
      The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
  • (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse), pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɛə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

mare (plural mares)

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) (clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
    I'm having a complete mare today.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈmeːɹi/, /ˈmɑːɹi/

Noun

mare (plural maria)

  1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
  2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • marë, marulë

Etymology

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

Noun

mare f (definite singular marja)

  1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
  2. strawberry tree fruit

Derived terms

  • mareshtë

Aromanian

Adjective

mare

  1. Alternative form of mari

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈma.ɾə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈma.ɾe/
  • Rhymes: -aɾe

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. mother

Further reading

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare m

  1. sea

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

Noun

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

  1. incubus, succubus

Declension

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. (archaic) message, report, story
    Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal
  2. (archaic) rumor
    Synonym: gerucht

Etymology 2

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Noun

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

  1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
  2. nightmare
  3. witch
Derived terms
  • nachtmare

Etymology 4

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

mare

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *mari-, *mori- (“marsh, lake, sea”). Akin to Old High German meri (“lake, sea”) (German Meer), Old Saxon meri, Old English mere (“pond, pool, mere”) (English mere). More at mere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑʁ/
  • audio(file)

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. puddle
  2. pool

Further reading

Anagrams

Istriot

Etymology 1

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare

  1. sea
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin māter.

Noun

mare f

  1. mother

See also

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːre/, [ˈmäːre]
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -are

Noun

mare m (plural mari)

  1. sea

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

Noun

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

  1. sea
    • National motto of Canada:
      a mari usque ad mare ― from sea to sea

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mare maria
genitive maris marium
dative marī maribus
accusative mare maria
ablative marī maribus
vocative mare maria

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

mare

  1. ablative singular of mas

References

  • mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit

Marau

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz.

Adjective

mâre

  1. famous, famed
  2. honoured, prestigious
  3. well-known
Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją.

Noun

mâre f

  1. fame, famousness
  2. rumour
  3. message
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Etymology 3

Noun

māre ?

  1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “mare (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mare (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mare (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mare (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
  • “mare (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
  • “mare (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Munggui

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmarɐ/

Noun

mare

  1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

  1. (France, Guernsey) pool

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑre/

Noun

mare f (nominative plural maran)

  1. nightmare, evil spirit

Declension

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Adjective

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

  1. evil; bad

Adverb

mare

  1. evilly; badly

Papuma

Noun

mare

  1. water

References

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese

Verb

mare

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of marar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of marar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of marar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of marar

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.re/
  • Rhymes: -are

Etymology 1

From Latin mārem, accusative singular of mās (“male”), from Proto-Indo-European *meryo (“young man”)

Adjective

mare m, f, n (plural mari)

  1. big, large, great
    Antonym: mic
    O mare mare. ― A big sea.
  2. great, mighty
    Un om mare. ― A great man.
Inflection
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mare f (plural mări)

  1. sea
    Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.
    When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.
Declension

Sonsorolese

Noun

mare

  1. boy

Tahitian

Noun

mare

  1. (archaic) cough

Usage notes

Use hota.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin māter, mātrem. Compare Italian madre

Noun

mare f (invariable)

  1. mother

See also

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مارا‎.

Noun

mare ?

  1. marriage
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