vier

From vie +‎ -er.

vier (plural viers)

1. One who vies for something.
   • 1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing (page 90)

     Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.

• iver, rive, vire

From Dutch vier, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr. Cognate with German vier, Dutch vier, English four, Icelandic fjórir.

• IPA^(key): /fiər/

vier

1. four

From Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /fiə̯/

vier

1. (most dialects) four

From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /vir/, [viːr], [viər]

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vier

1. four

• veertien f
• veertig f
• vierde
• viertal n

vier

1. first-person singular present indicative of vieren
2. imperative of vieren

From Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Compare Dutch vier, English four, Danish fire, Swedish fyra.

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ̯/

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

vier

1. four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
   • 1682, Benignus Kybler, WunderSpiegl Oder Göttliche Wunderwerck. Dritter und letzter Theil, p. 144:

     Bey Ablauffung der fünfften Wochen/ erschine ihr die Himmel-Königin abermahlen/ vnd raichet ein Himmlisches Getranck dar/ welches sie mit allgebürender Ehrerbütigkeit angenommen vnd genossen/ zumahlen sich dermassen erhollet hat / daß ihre Stärcke vnnd Leibs-Kräften weit grösser dann zuvoren/ nit leicht auch von vieren Männern kundte überwunden werden.

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Normally uninflected, but note the following:

• viere (now colloquial, used independently of a noun), e.g. Die Turmuhr schlug viere. ― The clock tower struck four.
• genitive: vierer (literary), e.g. nach Verlauf vierer Jahre ― after the course of four years
• dative: vieren (literary, now used independently of a noun), e.g. der letzte von vieren ― the last of four

• Vierzeiler

• vierte
• vierzehn
• vierzig

• vier in Duden online

vier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of viō

From Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

• Dutch: vier
• Limburgish: veer

vier n

1. (Flemish, sometimes Brabantian) Alternative form of vuur

• “viere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vier (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

vier

1. present tense of vie

From Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare German vier, Dutch vier, English four.

vier

1. four

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvjɛɾ/

vier

1. First-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of vir
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) future subjunctive of vir

From Latin verrēs.

IPA^(key): /vjer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. (male) wild boar

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From vie (“vineyard”), or from Latin vīneārius.

• viiariu (archaic)

IPA^(key): /viˈer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. vintager
2. (rare) vine grower

From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur, from Old Dutch fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

vier n

1. fire