mare

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (UK, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
   • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:

     The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?

• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

mare (plural mares)

1. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
2. (UK, colloquial) (Clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

• daymare
• nightmare

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɑɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹi

mare (plural maria)

1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

   Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

See mayor.

mare (plural mares)

1. Obsolete form of mayor.
2. Obsolete form of mair.

• Amer., Arem, Erma, Ream, amer., mear, rame, ramé, ream

• IPA^(key): /mʌˈɾe/
• Hyphenation: ma‧re

maré f (singulative maréyta m or mareytá f)

1. family, relationship

maré

1. (Northern Afar, intransitive) live
2. (Northern Afar, intransitive) continue

• mára (“people”)

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “mare”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• marë, marulë

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

mare f (definite singular marja)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. strawberry tree fruit

• mareshtë

mare

1. Alternative form of mari

• Hyphenation: ma‧re
• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/

máre

1. Misspelling of mari.

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/

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• Rhymes: -aɾe

mare f (plural mares)

1. mother

   mare subrogada ― surrogate mother

• “mare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “mare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin mare.

mare m

1. sea

From Old Norse mara.

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareridt n

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

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From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī (“story”).

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. (archaic) message, report, story

   Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal

2. (archaic) rumor

   Synonym: gerucht

• vermaren

Probably from Medieval Latin mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Related to German Maar.

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
2. nightmare
3. witch

• nachtmare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

• arme, rame

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from the Indo-European.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/, /mɑʁ/

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mare f (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

• pavé dans la mare

• “mare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarə]
• Hyphenation: ma‧rê

marê (first-person possessive mareku, second-person possessive maremu, third-person possessive marenya)

1. (astronomy, planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

• “mare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin mare.

mare

1. sea
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

• alto mare

From Latin māter.

mare f

1. mother

• mama

• mar (apocopic)

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: mà‧re

mare m (plural mari)

1. sea

• oceano (“ocean”)

• Mera, arme, erma, mera, rame, rema

mare

1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈmärɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈmäːre]

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

1. sea
   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum , (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis):

     Neptunum regnatorem marum

     Neptune, ruler of the seas

   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.1:

     [facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.

     In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.

   • 13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum):

     Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.

   • 1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto :

     a marī usque ad mare

     from sea to sea

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• The ablative singular can be marī or mare.
• The genitive plural form *marium, although regularly formed for an i-stem noun, is not attested in the corpus of classical texts. Marum is found only once, in a line from Gnaeus Naevius.
• The 5th/6th-century grammarian Priscian (Institutiones 7) says it is rarely used in the genitive plural, noting Caesar's use of maribus too. Similarly, the 4th-century grammarian Charisius claims it lacks both a genitive plural *marium and a *maribus form (but see the quotation from Julius Caesar above):

  "maria" tamen quamvis dicantur pluraliter, attamen nec "marium" nec "maribus" dicemus
  — although maria can be said in the plural, nevertheless we won't say marium nor maribus (Ars 1.11).

• pontus

• bimaris
• Hibēricum Mare
• marīnus
• maritimus

mare

1. ablative singular of mās

• mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• mera

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

mâre

1. famous, famed
2. honoured, prestigious
3. well-known

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją, related to Etymology 1 above.

mâre f

1. fame, famousness
2. rumour
3. message

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar, mare
• Limburgish: maer

From Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā.

māre ?

1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar
• Limburgish: maar

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

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarɐ/

mare

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

From Old French mare.

mare f (plural mares)

1. (France, Guernsey) pool

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

From Old Norse mara.

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareritt (“nightmare”)

• “mare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma

From Old Norse mara f.

• Mara, mara, maru, muru, murru (dialectal)

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• marekors (“pentagram”)
• marekvist (“a witch's broom”)
• mareritt (“nightmare”)
• (probably derived) innmari

From Old Norse merja (“to crush”).

• mara (split or a-infinitive)

mare (present tense marar, past tense mara, past participle mara, passive infinitive marast, present participle marande, imperative mare/mar)

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• “mare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma, rame, rema

From Proto-West Germanic *marā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.re/

mare f (nominative plural maran)

1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

• *nihtmare

• English: mare

• mar

From Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit”).

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

mare

1. evilly; badly

mare

1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

mare

1. inflection of marar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

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Several theories exist. One possibility is Latin maiōrem, masculine and feminine accusative singular of maiōr (“bigger”), irregularly clipped before the [j] → [d͡ʒ] sound change (the regular form would be *măjoare). Compare also Dalmatian maur (“large”). Another proposed etymology is Latin marem, accusative of mās (“male, man”) (however, the reason for the shift in meaning or the exact semantic development is uncertain; it may be because men are generally larger than women, or from a crossing with magnus, or more likely from use in idiomatic expressions (with equivalents found in many languages) such as s-a făcut mare, which can mean "he has grown up/grown older/become a man or adult", and this may have been eventually extended to mean "he/she has grown bigger", with the sense of the word shifting from "man/adult" to "big"). Less likely is the influence from mare (“sea”)[1]. Also found in Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian as mari (“big, large”).

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   Antonym: mic

   O mare mare. ― A big sea.

2. great, mighty

   Un om mare. ― A great man.

• mări
• mărime
• mărinimos

• măreț

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mare f (plural mări)

1. sea

   Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.

   When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.

• marin

• mari (“Campidanese”)

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

mare m (plural mares)

1. sea

mare

1. boy

• mars

Final clipping of kumare, from komadre.

• Hyphenation: ma‧re
• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/, [ˈma.ɾe]

mare (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)

1. (slang) close female friend; sister

   Ano'ng tsika, mare?

   What's the buzz, sister?

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan

   Coordinate terms: brad, pare, tol

• “mare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Use hota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/

mare

1. Alternative form of mari (“stone”)

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

From Latin mater.

mare f (invariable)

1. mother

From Latin mare.

mare

1. sea

Borrowed from Arabic مارا‎.

mare ?

1. marriage