fere

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɹ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fiːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: fear

From (Northumbrian) Old English fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra (whence also Middle English y-fere).

• pheer, feer

fere (plural feres)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.

2. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:

     And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.

   • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind:

     The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.

   • 1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story:

     What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.

• ferede

Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).

fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)

1. (obsolete) Fierce.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405:

     Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!

• -free, Free, feer, free, reef

fere

1. Alternative form of fãrã.

• nafore

• chend

fere

1. third-person singular present indicative of ferir
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ferir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Italic *feros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-o- (“tight, close by”), a derivative of *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.reː/, [ˈfɛreː] or IPA^(key): /ˈfe.re/, [ˈfɛrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.re/, [ˈfɛːre]

Note: this frequent and colloquial word normally undergoes iambic shortening of the last syllable in Plautus, but is kept long in Classical dactylic verse for archaic effect; it becomes short again in Late Latin.

ferē̆ (not comparable)

1. (close enough) roughly, approximately, mostly, more or less, around, about

   Synonym: fermē

   sōlis ferē̆ occāsū

   around sundown

   • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 1.6.2:

     haec habēbam ferē̆ quae tē scīre vellem

     this is more or less everything I wanted to tell you

2. (indistinguishable from) nearly, practically, virtually, almost, well-nigh, quite

   Synonyms: fermē, prope, paene, iū̆xtā

   haud ferē̆ quisquam

   hardly anybody

3. (in general) often, normally, usually, generally, as a rule, in most cases, mainly

   Synonyms: fermē, plērumque, vulgō

   ut ferē̆ fit

   as often happens; as usual

• fermē

From for.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.re/, [ˈfeːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.re/, [ˈfɛːre]

fēre

1. Alternative form of fēris, second-person singular present active subjunctive of for

• “ferē” on page 752 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • (ambiguous) to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    
  • (ambiguous) as usually happens: ut fit, ita ut fit, ut fere fit
    
  • (ambiguous) he spoke (very much) as follows: haec (fere) dixit
    
  • (ambiguous) this is very much what Cicero said: haec Ciceronis fere
    

From Old English fǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *fāru, from Proto-Germanic *fērō.

• fer, feer, feere

• IPA^(key): /fɛːr/

fere (plural feris)

1. fear

• feren

• English: fear
• Scots: fere, feir
• Yola: vear

• “fēr, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English feorh, from Proto-West Germanic *ferh, from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz.

fere (uncountable)

1. life

• féther (Jersey)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fere

1. (Sark) to iron

Compare Yoruba fèrè.

• IPA^(key): /fè.ɾè/

fèrè (plural fèrèzhì)

1. small whistle; flute

fere

1. Alternative form of faire
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     Sire, vostre prisoniers sui
     por fere ce que vos voldroiz

     Sire, I am your prisoner
     To do what you desire

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Hyphenation: fe‧re

fere

1. inflection of ferir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ɾe/

fere (Jawi فيري)

1. (intransitive) to ascend
2. (intransitive, transitive) to climb
3. (intransitive, of the Sultan's palace) to go, go to, enter

   ana ifere toma kadato ― they entered into the palace

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognates include Nupe fèrè

• IPA^(key): /fè.ɾè/

fèrè

1. (music) flute; small type of whistle
2. (soccer) whistle

   Synonym: òfé

3. balloon

   Synonym: bààlúù

• fọn fèrè (“to play the flute; to blow a whistle”)