pera

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear

• “pera” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From Old Occitan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpə.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear (fruit)

• perer
• perera

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

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeːɹa/
• Rhymes: -eːɹa

pera f (genitive singular peru, plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Old Portuguese pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear (fruit)

• pereira

• “pera” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

pera f (genitive singular peru, nominative plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

pera f

1. stone

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

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pera f (plural pere)

1. pear (the fruit)
2. (slang) fix (dose of drug)
   • Farsi una pera. - To shoot up.

• peretta
• pero

• apre, arpe, pare, rape

From Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ra/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ra/, [ˈpeː.ra]

pēra f (genitive pērae); first declension

1. bag, satchel (slung over one shoulder)
2. wallet
3. scrip

First declension.

• pērula

• pera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pera in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pera in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• pera in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

pera

1. silver

pera

1. pillow

• urunga

From Old Occitan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾo]

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• perer / perièr

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/

From Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).

pera

1. for, towards
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 100 (facsimile):

     Santa maria / ſtrela do dia / moſtra nos uia / pera deus ⁊ nos guia.

     Holy Mary, / star of the daytime; / show us the way / towards God, and guide us.

• Galician: para, pra
• Portuguese: para

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

pera f

1. pear

   maçãas e peras.

   apples and pears.

• Galician: pera
• Portuguese: pera

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ra/

pera f (diminutive perka)

1. (Poznań region) Alternative form of pyra.

• “Pyra”, in Słownik gwary miejskiej Poznania‎, (Please provide a date or year)

From Old Portuguese pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• pêra (superseded)

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• pereira
• pera doce

Clipping of espera.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra
• Rhymes: -ɛra

pera

1. (colloquial) just a minute
2. (colloquial) wait (asking for stop to make an observation)

• peraí

pera

1. Obsolete form of para.

• “pera” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Old Spanish pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (anatomy) chin
3. (boxing) speed bag

• (chin): barbilla, mentón

• perilla

• → Jicarilla: béela

• “pera” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Portuguese pera (“pear”).

pera (ma class, plural mapera)

1. guava

• mpera

pera

1. money; cash
2. centavo

Related to Finnish perä.

pera

1. stern (rear end of a ship)

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “корма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika