laurer

From Latin laurus +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ʁe/, /lo.ʁe/

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• Homophones: laurai, lauré, laurée, laurées, laurés, laurez

laurer

1. to crown, or decorate, with laurels

• “laurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rural, leurra

• laurear, laurere, lawrer, laurier, lorer, lorere, lorier, lorrer, lorrere, loryere, loryȝer
• (with /l/) laureal, laureall, laurealle, laurel, laurell, laureol, laureole, laurial, laurialle, lauryel, lawriall, lorel, lorell, lorelle, loryel

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lorer (Old French lorier), from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus, which forms with /au̯/ are influenced by.

Forms with final /l/ are presumably due to a combination of dissimilation (as in marble, variant of marbre) and the influence of laureola, but are often reshaped after the suffix -(i)al.

• IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈreːr/, /ˈlau̯rər/, /lɔ-/
• (with /l/) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈrɛl/, /ˈlau̯rɛl/, /lɔ-/, /-ial/

laurer (plural laurers)

1. laurel
   • Circa 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, lines 44-45

     With his tryumphe and laurer-corouned thus,

     In al the flour of Fortunes yevynge

• English: laurel
• Scots: laurie

• “laurel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “laurer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.