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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈne.re/
- Rhymes: -ere
- Hyphenation: né‧re
Adjective
nere
- feminine plural of nero
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Latin
Verb
nēre
- inflection of neō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognates include Middle Low German nēre, Old High German nioro, and Old Norse nýra.
Noun
nēre (plural nēres)
- kidney
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Etymology 2
From Old English nēar (“nearer”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.
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Adverb
nere
- near
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Etymology 3
From Old English nǣre, equivalent to ne + were.
Verb
nere
- weren't
c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales, lines 875–877, 885:And ceꝛtes, if it neꝛe too long to heeꝛe, / I wold have told you fully the manneꝛe / How wonnen was the regne of Femenye / By Theſeus and by his chivalrye, […] / But all that thing I mot as now foꝛbeꝛe.- And certainly, if it weren't too long to hear / I would have told you the manner / How the realm of Femeny was won / By Theseus and by his chivalry, / But I must leave all that alone for now.
References
p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adverb
nere
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by nede
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adverb
nere
- (dialectal) Alternative form of nede
Swedish
Pronunciation
Adverb
nere (comparative mer nere, superlative mest nere)
- (comparative längre, superlative längst) down, below, downstairs, at the far end of
- Antonym: uppe
- (colloquial) down, sad, depressed (of humans)
- (not comparable) down, offline, not available (of computers and online services)
- tjänsten ligger nere ― the service is down
Webbsajten kommer att vara nere imorgon bitti. Den planerade nertiden är två timmar. Sajten tas/stängs ner klockan 8.- The website will be down tomorrow morning. The planned downtime is two hours. The site is taken/shut down at 8 o'clock.
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