nere

See also: nerę, néré, and nɛrɛ

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈne.re/
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: né‧re

Adjective

nere

  1. feminine plural of nero

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Latin

Verb

nēre

  1. inflection of neō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. 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)

  1. kidney
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • kidnēre
Descendants
  • Scots: neer, nere, neir
References

Etymology 2

From Old English nēar (“nearer”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

Alternative forms

Adverb

nere

  1. near
Descendants
References

Etymology 3

From Old English nǣre, equivalent to ne +‎ were.

Verb

nere

  1. 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

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by nede

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adverb

nere

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of nede

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²neːrɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -²eːrɛ

Adverb

nere (comparative mer nere, superlative mest nere)

  1. (comparative längre, superlative längst) down, below, downstairs, at the far end of
    Antonym: uppe
  2. (colloquial) down, sad, depressed (of humans)
  3. (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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