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From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear

• “pera” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

pera

1. allative singular of pe

Inherited from Old Catalan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Rhymes: -eɾa

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear (fruit)
2. goatee

   Synonym: masclet

• partir peres
• perer
• perera
• tocar la pera

• “pera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish pera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/, [ˈpe.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. pear (fruit)

pera f (plural pere)

1. pear

• peru (“pear tree”)

• “pera” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛra]

pera

1. inflection of pero:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

pera

1. masculine singular present transgressive of prát

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeːɹa/
• Rhymes: -eːɹa

pera f (genitive singular peru, plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Old Galician-Portuguese pera (13th century, Alfonso X), from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾɐ]

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear (fruit)
2. (slang) masturbation

• pereira (“pear tree”)
• leite de pera (“semen”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pera”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pera”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “pera”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

pera f (genitive singular peru, nominative plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

pera f

1. stone

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: pé‧ra

pera f (plural pere)

1. pear (the fruit)
2. (slang) fix (dose of drug)

   farsi una pera

   to shoot up

• peretta
• pero

• apre, arpe, pare, rape

From Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ra/, [ˈpeːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ra/, [ˈpɛːrä]

pēra f (genitive pērae); first declension

1. bag, satchel (slung over one shoulder)
2. wallet
3. scrip

First-declension noun.

• pērula

• hippopēra

• “pera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pera”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “pera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• aper, prae

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

pera

1. silver

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpera]

pera (Lontara spelling ᨄᨙᨑ, semi-transitive ammera)

1. (transitive) to wring out

pera

1. pillow

• urunga

From Old Occitan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾo]

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• perer / perièr

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/

From Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).

pera

1. for, towards

   • Santa maria / ſtrela do dia / moſtra nos uia / pera deus ⁊ nos guia.

     Holy Mary, / star of the daytime; / show us the way / towards God, and guide us.

• Galician: para, pra
• Portuguese: para, pra, pa (syncopic forms)

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

pera f

1. pear

   maçãas e peras ― apples and pears

• Galician: pera
• Portuguese: pera

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera f (diminutive perka)

1. (Poznań) Alternative form of pyra

• “Pyra”, in Słownik gwary miejskiej Poznania, (Can we date this quote?)

• pera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• pêra (pre-1990 spelling)

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (colloquial) a knuckle sandwich

• pereira
• pera doce

Clipping of espera, imperative of esperar (“to wait”)

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. (colloquial) just a minute

   Synonyms: pera aí, peraí

2. (colloquial) wait (asking for stop to make an observation)

pera

1. Archaic form of para.

• “pera”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

pera

1. inflection of pero:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpera]

pera

1. genitive singular of pero

pera f

1. lip

• “pera”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Inherited from Old Spanish pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/ [ˈpe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (boxing) speed bag
3. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) chin

   Synonyms: barbilla, mentón

• → Jicarilla: béela

• “pera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• rape, rapé, pare, paré

Borrowed from Portuguese pera (“pear”).^[1]

pera (ma class, plural mapera)

1. guava

• mpera

Either from Spanish perra (“5 and 10 centimo peseta coins”, literally “bitch / female dog”),^[1] or Spanish pela (“1 peseta coins”, literally “a hit or beating”), due to the circulation of perra gorda (“10 centimo peseta coin”), perra chica (“5 centimo peseta coin”), and pela (“1 peseta coin”), coins which depicted a Spanish heraldic lion rampant regardant during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines.

Potet (2016) also remarks that it seems to be a cross between Malay perak and Spanish perra, wherein an interference could've occurred between the colloquial senses of Spanish perra (“cash; dough (money)”, literally “bitch (dog)”) and Malay perak (“coin”, literally “silver”). See also pilak.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/ [ˈpɛː.ɾɐ]
    • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾa/ [ˈpiː.ɾɐ] (Bataan)
    • Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜇ)

1. money; cash

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:salapi

• pare

From Proto-Finnic *perä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä. Cognates include Finnish perä.

pera

1. stern (rear end of a ship)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “корма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika