spare

Signification

Adj

1. Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
2. Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
3. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
4. Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
5. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
6. Not occupied or in current use.
7. Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
8. (informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.

Noun

1. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
2. Parsimony; frugal use.
3. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
4. That which has not been used or expended.
5. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
6. A superfluous or second-best person.
7. The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
8. The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
9. A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
10. assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)

Verb

1. To show mercy, to have mercy on.
2. To show mercy, to have mercy on.
3. To show mercy, to have mercy on.
4. To show mercy, to have mercy on.
5. To keep.
6. To keep.
7. To keep.
8. (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈspɛə(ɹ)/

Étymologie

From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).