spere

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spere (plural speres)

1. (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.

• prees, peers, Reeps, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, Perse, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, per se, Serpe, perse

From Middle High German sperren, from Old High German sperran (“to put up rafters, beams; to barricade”), from sper (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

spere

1. (Uri) to block, to bar

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.

• IPA^(key): [ˈspɛrɛ]

spere

1. third-person singular future of seprat

   Synonym: sepere

From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

spere f or n

1. spear, lance
2. spearman, lancer

• Dutch: speer
• Limburgish: spaer

• “spere, sperre”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “spere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Inherited from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

• spære, spear, speer, sper, sperre

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛ̞ːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres or sperren)

2. A spear or lance.
3. (Christianity) The Lance of Longinus.
4. A barb or point.
5. A spearman; a soldier who wields a spear.

• spere-hed
• spere schaft
• sperwort

• English: spear
• Scots: spere, speir

• “spēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 April 2018.

Borrowed from Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).

• sper, sphere, spire

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeːr(ə)/, /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres)

1. (astronomy) The cosmos, outer space
2. A globe or sphere representing outer space.
3. (astronomy) The supposed outer sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile.
5. sphere, ball, a spherical object.

• English: sphere
• Scots: sphere, spere

• “spẹ̄re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 April 2018.

From Medieval Latin spera.

• sperre, spure

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

spere (plural speres)

2. partition, divider

• English: spere

• “spēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 April 2018.

spere

1. alternative form of sparre

spere

1. alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

From Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, Old High German sper (German Speer), Old Norse spjǫr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspe.re/
• Rhymes: -e.re

spere n (nominative plural speru)

1. spear, lance, pike, javelin

Strong i-stem:

• Middle English: spere, spear
  • English: spear

• IPA^(key): [ˈspere]

spere

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of spera