parer

Meaning

  1. to adorn; to bedeck
  2. to fend off
  3. to parry
  4. (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)

Frequency

25k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pa.ʁe/
Etymology

In summary

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

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