pera

Etymology

From Latin pira, from pirum.

Noun

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear

Etymology

From Latin pira, from pirum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpə.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa

Noun

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear (fruit)

Etymology

From Latin pira, from pirum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeːɹa/
• Rhymes: -eːɹa

Noun

pera f (genitive singular peru, plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

Etymology

From Latin pira, from pirum.

Noun

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear (fruit)

Etymology

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

Noun

pera f (genitive singular peru, nominative plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

Etymology

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

Noun

pera f

1. stone

Etymology

From pira, the plural of Latin pirum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pera f (plural pere)

1. pear (the fruit)
2. (slang) fix (dose of drug)
   • Farsi una pera. - To shoot up.

Anagrams

• apre, arpe, pare, rape

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ra/

Noun

pēra f (genitive pērae); first declension

1. bag, satchel (slung over one shoulder)
2. wallet

References

• pera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pera in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pera in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• pera in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Noun

pera

1. pillow

Etymology

From the plural of Latin pirum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾo]

Noun

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/

Etymology 1

From Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).

Etymology 2

From Latin pirum.

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese pera, from Latin pirum.

Etymology 2

Clipping of espera.

Etymology 3

Etymology

From the plural of Latin pirum.

Noun

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (anatomy) chin
3. (boxing) speed bag

Etymology

From Portuguese pera (“pear”).

Noun

pera (ma class, plural mapera)

1. guava

Noun

pera

1. money; cash
2. centavo

Etymology

Related to Finnish perä.

Noun

pera

1. stern (rear end of a ship)

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “корма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika