orer

Latin

Verb

ōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ōrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

orer m or f

1. indefinite plural of or

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• orar

Noun

orer f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of or

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ōrāre.

Verb

orer

1. to pray
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Elyzabel, fille au roi de Hongrie:

     Jamais ne li fust nuns anuiz
     A releveir chacune nuit
     Por aleir a l'eglize oreir

     It never bothered her
     To get up each night
     To go to the Church and pray

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb has a stressed present stem eur distinct from the unstressed stem or. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of orer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		orer			avoir oré
gerund		en orant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		orant
past participle		oré
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	eur	eures	eure	orons	orez	eurent
	imperfect	oroie, oreie, oroe, oreve	oroies, oreies, oroes, oreves	oroit, oreit, orot, oreve	oriiens, oriens	oriiez, oriez	oroient, oreient, oroent, orevent
	preterite	orai	oras	ora	orames	orastes	orerent
	future	orerai	oreras	orera	orerons	oreroiz, orereiz, orerez	oreront
	conditional	oreroie, orereie	oreroies, orereies	oreroit, orereit	oreriiens, oreriens	oreriiez, oreriez	oreroient, orereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	eur	eurs	eurt	orons	orez	eurent
	imperfect	orasse	orasses	orast	orissons, orissiens	orissoiz, orissez, orissiez	orassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	eure	—	orons	orez	—

Derived terms

• אָרן (from Zarphatic)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (orer)
• Weinreich, M. (1956). The Jewish Languages of Romance Stock and Their Relation to Earliest Yiddish in Romance Philology, 9(4), pp.414. Brepols: University of California Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44938790. Accessed 29th October 2024.