Definitions For Nare

Noun

NARE (plural NAREs) (rare, anatomy) A nostril

Derived terms

narial

Usage notes

The Latin declension, naris#latin, naris (singular) and nares#latin, nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares#english, nares and nares#english, naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, w:webster's dictionary#webster's new international dictionary 1909, webster's 1913 enters it, and w:samuel butler (poet), samuel butler's use of it in w:hudibras, hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of w:edgar allan poe, edgar allan poe, who used that line as an epigraph to . It is likely that the singular nare began as the w:back-formation, back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an w:english plurals#regular plurals, english regular plural, which in turn caused nares#english, that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine#french, narine and narina#spanish, narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for w:nasal administration, nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error for naris.

Anagrams

Arne, EARN, Earn, Near, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, near, rean