# parer
## English
### Etymology

From pare +‎ -er.

### Noun

parer (plural parers)
* A tool used to pare things.
* (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
** 2013 December 6, Russell W. Belk, Linda Price, Lisa Penaloza, Consumer Culture Theory, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.

#### Derived terms

* pencil parer

### Anagrams

* Raper, raper

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pārēre. Displaced as a verb by the doublet parèixer (“to seem”); compare Spanish parecer (“to seem; opinion”). Also compare Friulian parè, Italian parere, Romanian părere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [pəˈɾɛ]
* IPA: (Balearic) [pəˈɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [paˈɾeɾ]

### Noun

parer m (plural parers)
* view, opinion
    segons el meu parer ― in my opinion
** 2003, Ferran Grau Codina, La Universitat de València i l’humanisme: Studia humanitatis i renovació cultural a Europa i el nou món, Universidad de Valencia, →ISBN, page 431:Encara que el Papa Pau III era del mateix parer, tot i això, l'emperador imposà el seu criteri.Although Pope Paul III was of the same view, the emperor nevertheless imposed his own opinion.
** 2021 April 14, Cristian Segura, “Ada Colau i Twitter: el risc d’unes xarxes socials massa personals”, in El País‎:La prova, segons el seu parer, és que l'alcaldessa no ha tancat encara el compte de Twitter.The evidence, in his opinion, is that the mayor hasn't shut her Twitter account.

#### Derived terms

* parença

### Further reading

* “parer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “parer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “parer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “parer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin parāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ʁe/
* Homophones: parai, paré, parée, parées, parés, parez
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

parer
* to adorn; to bedeck
    Paré de fleurs. ― Adorned with flowers.
* to fend off
** 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 7:Ce n’est qu’en fuyant qu’on pare de tels coups.Only by fleeing may one fend off such blows.
* (fencing) to parry
* (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)

#### Derived terms

* déparer
* pare-balles
* pare-boue
* pare-brise
* pare-chocs
* pare-feu
* pare-soleil
* parer à
* parer au plus pressé

#### Related terms

* comparer
* préparer
* réparer
* séparer
* sevrer

### Further reading

* “parer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* râper

## Interlingua
### Verb

parer
* to seem, appear to be

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | parer | parer |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | parente | parite |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | pare | ha parite |
| active | past | pareva | habeva parite |
| active | future | parera | habera parite |
| active | conditional | parerea | haberea parite |
| active | imperative | pare | |

#### Derived terms

* disparer

## Latin
### Verb

parer
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of parō

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* parare

### Etymology

From Latin parēre (“to appear, to be visible, apparent”).

### Verb

parer
* (transitive) to seem (look like)

#### Conjugation

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.