rare
Middle English
/ˈraːr(ə)/
adj
Definitions
- airy, vacuous
- porous, breathable
- sparsely spread
- rare, uncommon, scarce
- small, little
Etymology
Derived from Old French rer derived from Latin rārus (rare, seldom, loose, sparse, spaced apart, thin, infrequent, uncommon).
Origin
Latin
rārus
Gloss
rare, seldom, loose, sparse, spaced apart, thin, infrequent, uncommon
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonrare English
- rare English
- rarefy English
- rareish English
- rarely English
- rareness English
- rarepair English
- raresome English
- rarify English
- rarity English
- semirare English
- superrare English
- ultrarare English
- rārus Latin
- rado Italian
- raro Italian
- rare French
- raro Spanish, Castilian
- *er(e)- Proto-Indo-European
- rar Norwegian Bokmål
- raro Portuguese
- レア Japanese
- rar Norwegian Nynorsk
- rare Old French
- rer Old French
- raro Galician
- rar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- raer Middle Dutch
- rare Norman
- rrallë Albanian
- rar Middle Low German
- rar Aromanian
- raru Asturian
- râr Friulian
- rar Old Occitan
- ralo Old Spanish