parer

English

Etymology

From pare +‎ -er.

Noun

parer (plural parers)

1. A tool used to pare things.
2. (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^(key): (Central) [pəˈɾɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pəˈɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈɾeɾ]

Noun

parer m (plural parers)

1. 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “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^(key): /pa.ʁe/
• Homophones: parai, paré, parée, parées, parés, parez

• Audio:

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Verb

parer

1. to adorn; to bedeck

   Paré de fleurs. ― Adorned with flowers.

2. 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.

3. (fencing) to parry
4. (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	parer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	parant /pa.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paré /pa.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pare /paʁ/	pares /paʁ/	pare /paʁ/	parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/	parez /pa.ʁe/	parent /paʁ/
	imperfect	parais /pa.ʁɛ/	parais /pa.ʁɛ/	parait /pa.ʁɛ/	parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/	pariez /pa.ʁje/	paraient /pa.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	parai /pa.ʁe/	paras /pa.ʁa/	para /pa.ʁa/	parâmes /pa.ʁam/	parâtes /pa.ʁat/	parèrent /pa.ʁɛʁ/
	future	parerai /pa.ʁə.ʁe/	pareras /pa.ʁə.ʁa/	parera /pa.ʁə.ʁa/	parerons /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	parerez /pa.ʁə.ʁe/	pareront /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	parerait /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/	parerions /pa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	pareriez /pa.ʁə.ʁje/	pareraient /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pare /paʁ/	pares /paʁ/	pare /paʁ/	parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/	pariez /pa.ʁje/	parent /paʁ/
	imperfect2	parasse /pa.ʁas/	parasses /pa.ʁas/	parât /pa.ʁa/	parassions /pa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	parassiez /pa.ʁa.sje/	parassent /pa.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pare /paʁ/	—	parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/	parez /pa.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of parer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

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

1. to seem, appear to be

Conjugation

    Conjugation of parer

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

Derived terms

• disparer

Latin

Verb

parer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of parō

Venetan

Alternative forms

• parare

Etymology

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

Verb

parer

1. (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.

infinitive	parer
auxiliary verb		aver	gerund		paréndo
past participle		parato
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	mi	ti	eło / eła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri / łore
present	paro	(te) pari	(el/ła) pare	parémo	parì	(i/łe) pare
imperfect	paréa	(te) parivi	(el/ła) paréa	parévimo	parivi	(i/łe) paréa
future	pararò	(te) pararè	(el/ła) pararà	pararémo	pararè	(i/łe) pararà
conditional	pararìa	(te) pararisi	(el/ła) pararìa	pararìsimo	pararisi	(i/łe) pararìa
subjunctive	che mi	che ti	che eło / eła	che noialtri / noialtre	che voialtri / voialtre	che łuri / łore
present	para	(te) pari	(el/ła) para	parémo	parì	(i/łe) para
imperfect	parése	(te) parisi	(el/ła) parése	parésimo	parisi	(i/łe) parése
imperative	—	ti	eło / eła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri / łore
	—	(te) pari	(el/ła) para	parémo	parì	(i/łe) para

Conjugation of parer (second conjugation)