# spere
## English
### Etymology

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### Noun

spere (plural speres)
* (architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.

### Anagrams

* prees, peers, Reeps, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, Perse, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, per se, Serpe, perse

## Alemannic German
### Etymology

From Middle High German sperren, from Old High German sperran (“to put up rafters, beams; to barricade”), from sper (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

### Verb

spere
* (Uri) to block, to bar

### References

* Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈspɛrɛ]

### Verb

spere
* third-person singular future of seprat
    Synonym: sepere

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

### Noun

spere f or n
* spear, lance
* spearman, lancer

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: speer
* Limburgish: spaer

### Further reading

* “spere, sperre”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

#### Alternative forms

* spære, spear, speer, sper, sperre

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

#### Noun

spere (plural speres or sperren)
* A spear or lance.
* (Christianity) The Lance of Longinus.
* A barb or point.
* A spearman; a soldier who wields a spear.

##### Derived terms

* spere-hed
* spere schaft
* sperwort

##### Descendants

* English: spear
* Scots: spere, speir

##### References

* “spēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sphere, from Latin sphaera, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra).

#### Alternative forms

* sper, sphere, spire

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspeːr(ə)/, /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

#### Noun

spere (plural speres)
* (astronomy) The cosmos, outer space
* A globe or sphere representing outer space.
* (astronomy) The supposed outer sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile.
* sphere, ball, a spherical object.

##### Descendants

* English: sphere
* Scots: sphere, spere

##### References

* “spẹ̄re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

### Etymology 3

From Medieval Latin spera.

#### Alternative forms

* sperre, spure

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛːr(ə)/

#### Noun

spere (plural speres)
* partition, divider

##### Descendants

* English: spere

##### References

* “spēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

spere
* Alternative form of sparre

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

spere
* Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, Old High German sper (German Speer), Old Norse spjǫr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspe.re/

### Noun

spere n (nominative plural speru)
* spear, lance, pike, javelin

#### Descendants

* Middle English: spere, spear
** English: spear

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈspere]

### Verb

spere
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of spera