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nare (pluralnares)
The Latin declension,naris (singular) andnares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter Englishnares andnaris but do not enternare (as of 2017). However,nare has been used in English for centuries; for example,Webster's 1913 enters it, andSamuel Butler's use of it inHudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers ofEdgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to"The Folio Club". It is likely that the singularnare began as theback-formed presumed singular ofnares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be anEnglish regular plural, which in turn causedthat sense ofnares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such asnarine andnarina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages fornasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefernaris ornostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error fornaris.
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nare (comparativenareago,superlativenareen,excessivenareegi)
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Borrowed from an extinctSouth Cushitic language. Compare withAfarna'aro(“woman”),Somalinaag(“woman”). See alsoHebrewנַעֲרָה(na'árah,“young woman, girl”)
nare ? (dual,plural)
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FromProto-Bantu*njátɪ́.
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| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | nare | narea | nari | narile | |
| genitive-dative | nari | narii | nari | narilor | |
| vocative | nare,nareo | narilor | |||
FromProto-Bantu*njátɪ́.
FromProto-Bantu*njátɪ́.
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