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English
Noun
nare (plural nares)
- (rare, anatomy) A nostril
Usage notes
The Latin declension, naris (singular) and nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares and naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, Webster's 1913 enters it, and Samuel Butler's use of it in Hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of Edgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to "The Folio Club". It is likely that the singular nare began as the back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an English regular plural, which in turn caused that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine and narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error for naris.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- eRNA, earn, Nera, rean, Rane, Near, near, Earn, Arne, erna, EARN
Aromanian
Noun
nare f
- Alternative form of nari
Basque
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)
- calm
- Synonyms: bare, lasai
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “nare”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “nare”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
nare
- inflection of naar:
- masculine/feminine singular attributive
- definite neuter singular attributive
- plural attributive
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: nà‧re
Noun
nare f pl
- (obsolete) Alternative form of nari (“nostrils”)
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
nare
- Rōmaji transcription of なれ
Latin
Verb
nāre
- present active infinitive of nō
Middle English
Adjective
nare
- Alternative form of narwe
Adverb
nare
- Alternative form of narwe
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
From na + -re.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nare
- yesterday
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare
- buffalo
Pali
Alternative scripts
- 𑀦𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- नरे (Devanagari script)
- নরে (Bengali script)
- නරෙ (Sinhalese script)
- နရေ or ၼရေ (Burmese script)
- นเร or นะเร (Thai script)
- ᨶᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ນເຣ or ນະເຣ (Lao script)
- នរេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄚𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
nare
- inflection of nara (“man”):
- locative singular
- accusative plural
Romanian
Noun
nare f (plural nări)
- Alternative form of nară
Declension
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare class 9/10 (plural dinare)
- buffalo
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare class 9 (plural dinare)
- buffalo
Venetan
Verb
nare
- Alternative form of ndar