sparre

See also: Sparre

English

Noun

sparre (plural sparres)

1. Obsolete form of spar.

Anagrams

• Rapers, parers, parser, rapers, rasper, sparer

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sparre, from Proto-West Germanic *sparrō, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô.

Alternative forms

• spare, sparr, spere, sperr, sperre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspar(ə)/

Noun

sparre (plural sparres)

1. spar, rafter
2. pole, mast
3. (heraldry) chevron

Related terms

• sparren

Descendants

• English: spar
• Scots: spar

References

• “sparre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

sparre

1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sparre, from Old Norse sparri, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô.

Noun

sparre c

1. a rafter
2. (heraldry) a chevron

Declension

Declension of sparre

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sparre	sparres
	definite	sparren	sparrens
plural	indefinite	sparrar	sparrars
	definite	sparrarna	sparrarnas

Further reading

• sparre in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• sparre in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)