parer

From pare +‎ -er.

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'.

• Raper, raper

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pəˈɾɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pəˈɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈɾeɾ]

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^[1]:

     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.

• parença

• “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], April 2007
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁe/
• Homophones: parai, paré, parée, parées, parés, parez

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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)

• “parer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• râper

parer

1. to seem, appear to be

• disparer

parer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of parō

• parare

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

parer

1. (transitive) to seem (look like)

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.