pare
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
Verb
pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)
- (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
- Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
- (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
- to trim the hoof of a horse
Derived terms
- cheeseparing
- pare away
- pare down
- pare off
- parer
- paring
- paring knife
Translations
To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a knife
To reduce or trim something (as if) by cutting off
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Albanian
Asturian
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin pater, patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pare” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “pare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
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Esperanto
French
Verb
pare
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -are
Latin
Maore Comorian
Ngazidja Comorian
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
pare
- inflection of para (“other”):
- masculine and neuter locative singular
- masculine nominative and accusative plural
- feminine vocative singular
Romansch
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *paretem, from Latin pariēs, parietem.
Spanish
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