smerte

• smærte (obsolete)

From Middle Low German smerte.

smerte c (singular definite smerten, plural indefinite smerter)

1. pain
2. suffering
3. grief

From Middle Low German smerten, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną.

smerte (imperative smert, infinitive at smerte, present tense smerter, past tense smertede, perfect tense har smertet)

1. pain
2. grieve
3. ache

• (grieve): bedrøve
• (ache): værke

• smert, smarte, smart, smearte, smærte

From Old English smeart, from Proto-Germanic *smartaz.

• IPA^(key): /smɛrt/

smerte (inflected form smerte, comparative smerter, superlative smertest)

1. painful, hurtful, punishing, injurious
2. difficult, troubling, distressing
3. strong, aggressive
4. damaging, violent, powerful, intense, raging
5. (Late Middle English) quick, speedy, alert
6. (rare) rough, raw

• smerten

• English: smart
• Scots: smert

• “smert (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

From German Low German smerte

smerte m (definite singular smerten, indefinite plural smerter, definite plural smertene)

1. an ache
2. a pain

• “smerte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German smerte

• IPA^(key): /²smɛrtə/

smerte f (definite singular smerta, indefinite plural smerter, definite plural smertene)

1. an ache
2. a pain

• brystsmerte
• smertefri
• smertefull
• smertelindring

• “smerte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.