spare – English noun declension

English noun forms of spare

Noun: spare
Singularspare
Pluralspares

Sample Sentences

  • men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses [1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:]
  • Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare: [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 51:]
  • I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]
  • People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
  • an heir and a spare
  • The whole Heir versus Spare thing? Wasn't it a bit late for that tired childhood dynamic? [2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; J. R. Moehringer, Spare, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:]
  • I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule. [2010, Sandra Rinomato, Realty Check: Real Estate Secrets for First-Time Canadian Home Buyers:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
2. Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”). See: Middle English Nouns 'spare', Latin Nouns 'prosperus'.

Verbs referencing "spare"

Danish Nouns spare, Dutch Nouns spare, Latin Nouns pars, English Nouns sparerib, English Nouns ribspare.