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See also: méar

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: mere

Noun

mear (plural mears)

  1. Alternative form of mere ("boundary").

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams


Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch maar.

Conjunction

mear

  1. but

Irish

Etymology

Possibly related to English merry and its Germanic cognates.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

mear (genitive singular masculine mear, genitive singular feminine mire, plural meara, comparative mire)

  1. quick, fast, nimble, lively, spirited
  2. precipitate, hasty, rash; quick-tempered, fiery
  3. (literary)
    1. mad, crazy
    2. furious, raging, mad angry

Declension

Declension of mear
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative mear mhear meara;
mheara2
vocative mhear meara
genitive mire meara mear
dative mear;
mhear1
mhear;
mhear (archaic)
meara;
mheara2
Comparative níos mire
Superlative is mire

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Verb

mear (present analytic mearann, future analytic mearfaidh, verbal noun mearadh, past participle meartha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of mearaigh (derange, distract; bewilder, confuse; excite, infuriate; bother, trouble; become distracted, bewildered; become infuriated)

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of mear
radical lenition eclipsis
mear mhear not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “mear”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading


Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius. Compare mediar (a borrowed doublet).

Verb

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  1. to halve (divide into two)

Conjugation

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mēiō, mēiere, reinterpreted in Vulgar Latin as a first-conjugation verb (*mēiāre). Compare Portuguese mijar and English micturate.

Pronunciation

Verb

mear (first-person singular present meo, first-person singular preterite meé, past participle meado)

  1. to piss, to pee
    Synonyms: orinar, echar una meada
  2. (reflexive) to piss oneself

Conjugation


West Frisian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Dutch meer. Also compare the native form mar (lake). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

mear c (plural mearen, diminutive mearke)

  1. lake

Further reading

mear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō.

Determiner

mear

  1. comparative degree of folle: more

Adverb

mear

  1. To a greater degree or extent, more
  2. Used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs where -er cannot be used.

Further reading

mear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011