# pere
## English
### Noun

pere
* Alternative spelling of père

### Anagrams

* pree, Reep, peer, Pree

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pere
* plural of peer

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛrɛ]

### Verb

pere
* third-person singular present of prát

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French père.

### Noun

pere m (plural peren, diminutive pereke n)
* (Belgium) father
    (Brabantian) Ik tegen m'n neefke: "Zeg, Viggo, bleitsmoel, gadis aan ave pere z'n broek hange jong, trezebees!"(please add an English translation of this usage example)

### References
## Esperanto
### Etymology

per +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

pere
* by means...

#### Usage notes

* Used as part of the phrase pere de.

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pereh.

### Noun

pere (genitive pere, partitive peret)
* family

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pere”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* pere in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

per +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛrɛ]
* Hyphenation: pe‧re

### Noun

pere
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of per

#### Declension
## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pereh. Cognates include Finnish perhe and Estonian pere.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈpere/, [ˈpe̞re̞]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈpere/, [ˈpe̞re̞]
* Rhymes: -ere
* Hyphenation: pe‧re

### Noun

pere
* family
* swarm

#### Derived terms

* perekunta
* perekäs
* peremees

### References

* V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 64
* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 398
* Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 74

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.re/
* Rhymes: -ere
* Hyphenation: pé‧re

### Noun

pere f
* plural of pera

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin pater.

### Noun

pere m (plural peresc)
* father

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pira.

### Noun

pēre f
* pear

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: peer
** Afrikaans: peer
** Jersey Dutch: pêr
** → Aukan: peli
** → Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)
* Limburgish: paer
* West Flemish: peire

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English pere, peru, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

#### Alternative forms

* peere, per, peire, peore, peare

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛːr(ə)/
* (mainly Early ME) IPA: /ˈpɛr(ə)/

#### Noun

pere (plural peres or peren)
* A pear (fruit of Pyrus communis)
* A thing of little import or worth.

##### Related terms

* perer
* peretre
* perre
* pirie

##### Descendants

* English: pear
** →⇒ Chinese: 啤梨 (pílí)
** →⇒ Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə)
** → Sotho: pere
** → Thai: แพร์ (pɛɛ)
** → Tokelauan: pea
** → Xhosa: ipere
* Scots: peer, peir
* → Scottish Gaelic: peur

##### References

* “pē̆re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-20.

### Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin pera, from Old Northern French pira, from Vulgar Latin *petricus.

#### Alternative forms

* per, peere

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛːr(ə)/

#### Noun

pere
* (rare) A pillar or stand of a bridge.

##### Descendants

* English: pier

##### References

* “pēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-20.

### Etymology 3

From Old French per and Anglo-Norman peir, from Latin pār.

#### Alternative forms

* per, peer, peere, pier, pyer, piere, pyere, pir

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /peːr/

#### Noun

pere (plural peres)
* A peer; one who is equal to or like another.
* A rival, enemy, or competitor; one who is in opposition.
* An individual who is of the same social class or standing as another.
* An associate or collaborator; one who works or associates with another.
* A member of the nobility or ruling class of a country or settlement.
* (anatomy, rare) A body part connected or concomitant with another.

##### Related terms

* dosse per
* noumpere
* parage
* pereles

##### Descendants

* English: peer
* Scots: peer

##### References

* “pẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

#### Adjective

pere
* The same; having no differences from something else.

##### References

* “pẹ̄r, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French pere, from Latin pater, patrem.

### Noun

pere m (plural peres)
* father

#### Descendants

* French: père
** → Dutch: pere
** → English: père
* Norman: père, pére, péthe

## Neapolitan
### Noun

pere m (plural piere)
* Alternative spelling of pede (“foot”)

## Northern Sotho
### Noun

pere
* horse

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *peru

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.re/

### Noun

pere f
* (fruit) pear

#### Descendants

* English: pear

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* pedre

### Etymology

From earlier pedre, from Latin pater, patrem.

### Noun

pere oblique singular, m (oblique plural peres, nominative singular pere, nominative plural pere)
* father (male family member)

### Proper noun

pere m
* (Christianity, may be capitalized) Father (God)

#### Alternative forms

* Pere

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: peire
* Middle French: pere
** French: père
*** → Dutch: pere
*** → English: père
** Norman: père, pére, péthe
* Walloon: pere

## Romanian
### Noun

pere f pl
* plural of pară

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

pere (Cyrillic spelling пере)
* third-person singular present of prati

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpere]

### Noun

pere
* locative singular of pero

## Sotho
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Afrikaans perd, from Dutch paard, from Middle Dutch pert, from Old Dutch *pered, from Late Latin paraverēdus.

#### Noun

pere class 9/10 (plural lipere)
* horse

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pear or Afrikaans peer, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Noun

pere class 9/10 (plural lipere)
* pear

## Spanish
### Etymology

Contraction of espere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɾe/ [ˈpe.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -eɾe
* Syllabification: pe‧re

### Interjection

pere
* (colloquial, Colombia) wait

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, across”). Compare Sanskrit पर्वन् (parvan).

### Noun

pere
* a plant stem, stalk

### Further reading

* Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

## Votic
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pereh.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈpere/, [ˈpere]
* Rhymes: -ere
* Hyphenation: pe‧re

### Noun

pere
* family

#### Inflection
### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pere”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Old French pere, pedre, from Latin pater, patrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛːʀ/

### Noun

pere m (plural peres)
* father

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* پعِرعِ

### Etymology

Adverb sense derives from ideophone sense

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pé.ɾé/, /k͡pè.ɾé/

### Ideophone

péré or pèré
* (of an object) being luxuriant or lush
* (of an object) being only some amount or quantity

### Adverb

péré
* only
    ẹyọ mẹ́ta péré ― Only three entities

#### Usage notes

* Only used with numbers

#### Related terms

* nìkan

## Zazaki
### Etymology

From Persian پاره (pâre).

### Noun

pere (pâre)
* money