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See also: avér, avèr, avēr, avêr, avër, and a ver

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English averren,[1] from Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērō, a verb derived from Latin vērus (true). Compare Modern French avérer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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aver (third-person singular simple present avers, present participle averring, simple past and past participle averred)

  1. (ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner. quotations ▼
  2. (ambitransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so. quotations ▼
Conjugation
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Synonyms
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  • (assert the truth): swear
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English aver, avere (workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession) [and other forms],[2][3] and then either:

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Noun

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aver (plural avers)

  1. (British, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag. quotations ▼

References

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  1. ^ averren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 āver, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ avēr, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ aver, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2021.

Anagrams

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Franco-Provençal

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Verb

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aver (Old Dauphinois)

  1. alternative form of avêr (to have)

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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aver (apocopated)

  1. apocopic form of avere

Anagrams

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Ladino

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Etymology

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From Old Spanish aver, from Latin habēre (hold, have).

Verb

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aver (Hebrew spelling אביר)

  1. to have
  2. (impersonal, in third person singular only) to exist; “there is”, “there are” (ay); “there was”, “there were” (avia)

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old French aver, aveir, avoir (possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle) (modern French avoir (asset, possession)), from aveir, avoir (to have), from Latin habēre (to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (to grab, take). Cognate with Middle French avoir, Norman aver, aveir.

Noun

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aver (plural avers)

  1. belongings, possessions, property, wealth

References

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  1. ^ avēr, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French aveir, archaic form of avoir, from Latin habēre (have, hold, possess).

Verb

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aver

  1. (Jersey, alternative form in Guernsey) to have

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habēre (to have, hold, keep). Cognate with French avoir, Italian avere, Portuguese haver, Romanian avea, avere, and Sardinian (Campidanese airi, Logudorese àere), Spanish haber, and English aver (borrowed via Old French).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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aver

  1. to have; to possess synonym ▲
    Synonym: possedir
  2. (auxiliary) to have

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Old French

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Verb

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aver

  1. alternative form of avoir

Noun

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aver oblique singularm (oblique plural avers, nominative singular avers, nominative plural aver)

  1. alternative form of avoir quotations ▼

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin habēre (to have, to hold, to possess). Cognate with Old Spanish and Old Occitan aver, Old French aveir.

Pronunciation

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  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /aˈβeɾ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /aˈβeɾ/, /aˈveɾ/

Verb

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aver

  1. to have
    Pedro a duas filhas.
    Pedro has two daughters.
  2. to exist

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Descendants

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Further reading

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Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin habēre (to have, hold, keep). Cognate with Old French avoir, aver, aveir, avoyr, Old Sardinian avere, and Old Spanish aver.

Verb

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aver

  1. to have; to possess quotations ▼

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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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    From Latin habeō, habēre (to have, hold, keep). Cognate with Old French avoir, aver, aveir, avoyr, and Old Occitan aver, haver.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    aver

    1. to have
      Pedro ha dos fijas.
      Pedro has two daughters.

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    Portuguese

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    Verb

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    aver (first-person singular present indicative ei, past participle avido)

    1. obsolete spelling of haver

    Conjugation

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    Noun

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    aver m (plural averes)

    1. obsolete spelling of haver

    Romani

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀯𑀭 (avara), from Sanskrit अपर (apara).

    Adjective

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    aver

    1. other

    References

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    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ápara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 20
    • Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “avér”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
    • Marcel Courthiade (2009), “aver B-ćham: -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 68

    Spanish

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    Verb

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    aver

    1. obsolete spelling of haber

    Conjugation

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    Venetan

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Latin habēre.

    Verb

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    aver

    1. (transitive) to have
    2. (transitive) to possess

    Conjugation

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

    References

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    • Silvano Belloni (2009), Grammatica Veneta [Venetan Grammar]‎[4] (in Italian), Esedra Editrice, →ISBN, page 75