prie

See also: prié and prie-

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɹaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: pry

Noun

prie

  1. The plant privet.
    • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, OCLC 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:
      Lop popler and ſallow, elme, maple, and prie,
      well ſaued from cattle, till Sommer to lie

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 prie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pʁi/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophones: prient, pries, pris, prit, prît, prix

Verb

prie

  1. inflection of prier:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Derived terms

Anagrams

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *prei, cognate with Proto-Slavic *pri (“at, by”), Latvian pie, Old Prussian prei.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [pʲrʲiə]

Preposition

priẽ (with genitive)[1]

  1. near
  2. at
  3. to a place near

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “prie”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 371

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

prie

  1. Obsolete spelling of prije
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