spare

(Anglais)

Adj

1. Extra.
2. Extra.
3. Extra.
4. Not plentiful.
5. Not plentiful.
6. Not plentiful.
7. Not plentiful.
8. (UK, 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. (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
10. (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To show mercy, to have mercy on.
2. (intransitive) To show mercy, to have mercy on.
3. (transitive) To show mercy, to have mercy on.
4. (specifically, transitive) To show mercy, to have mercy on.
5. (intransitive) To keep.
6. (transitive) To keep.
7. (transitive) To keep.
8. (transitive) (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 (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: spare

Hérité de ancien anglais: spær

Appartenant à néerlandais: spaarzaam

Appartenant à allemand: sparsam

Appartenant à suédois: sparsam

Appartenant à islandais: sparr

Appartenant à latin: prosperus

Appartenant à slavon d’église: споръ

Appartenant à albanais: shperr

Appartenant à persan: سپار

Appartenant à grec ancien: σπαρνός

Appartenant à sanskrit: स्फिर

Appartenant à écossais: spar

Appartenant à frison occidental: sparje

Appartenant à néerlandais: sparen

Appartenant à allemand: sparen

Appartenant à suédois: spara

Appartenant à islandais: spara

In summary

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”).

Concepts

épargner

économiser

libre

🆓

ménager

sauver

pièce de rechange

rechange

regretter

conserver

échapper

être indulgent

de réserve

maigre

pièce détachée

inutile

laisser

mettre de côté

nu

pièce

plaine

préparation

redondant

remettre

renforcer

réserve

soulager

superflu

vacant

dispenser de

excédant

laisser tranquille

levé

Ne pas déranger

roue de secours

se passer de

accessoire

cinquième roue du carrosse

aider

autre

bailler

cacher

célibataire

de rechange

donner

encourager

en trop

franc

🆓

garder

gratuit

insuffisant

Synonymes

save

reserve

superfluous

economize

extra

lean

thin

bare

spare part

free

🆓

redundant

leave

backup

conserve

surplus

leave over

scanty

frugal

plain

pardon

excess

afford

unornamented

austere

supernumerary

escape

lank

meager

skinny

scrawny

stingy

rescue

dispense with

fifth wheel

gaunt

unembellished

preserve

provide

rawboned

confer

part with

modest

miserly

omit

pity

left over

liberate

excuse

favour

loose

Traductions

sparen

sparen

ahorrar

risparmiare

poupar

economizar

economizar

besparen

erübrigen

oszczędzać

uitzuinigen

uitsparen

ontzien

schonen

ersparen