fiar

See feuar.

fiar (plural fiars)

1. (Scots law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
   • 1816, Walter Scott, “The Black Dwarf”, in A Complete Edition of the Waverley Novels, volume 13, published 1831, page 108:

     I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliecoat to draw the bond, and you to be at nae charge wi' the writings.

2. The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.
   • 1817, Committee members, Report respecting the Striking of the Fiars of Grain for the Crop of 1816 for the County of Lanark: The Farmers Magazine, volume 18, page 310:

     It seems to be a practice as improper as it is unnecessary, to strike the fiars in three different qualities of the same species of grain; and it should, in our humble opinion, be discontinued.

   • 1842, Fife Fiars, from 1619 to 1841 Inclusive, page vi:

     It was answered by the Sheriff. 1st, That the Act of Sederunt did not impose any positive injunction on Sheriffs to strike Fiars; that if the Fiars were substantially just, the Court could have no power to reduce them; and that the Act of Sederunt had never been observed in East Lothian; […] .

   • 1852, George Paterson, Historical Account of the Fiars in Scotland, page 7:

     In further confirmation that this is not the date of the origin, it may be stated, that there is very early mention of Commissaries' Fiars, Sir John Connell tracing the commencement of these so far back as the Reformation, when Commissary or Consistorial Courts were established, in place of those of the bishops or their officials; and notice is taken of the Fiars prices of grain in the records of the Commissary Court so far back as 1564—somewhat earlier than the statute above quoted.

• fiars prices

• RIFA, fair, rifa-

From Old High German furi. Cognate with German für.

fiar

1. Form of fia used before a vowel.

• via

fiar

1. four

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere (“to trust”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fiˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [fiˈaɾ]

fiar (first-person singular present fio, first-person singular preterite fií, past participle fiat)

1. (transitive) to sell on credit
2. (reflexive) to trust [+ de (object)]

   Synonym: confiar

   Antonym: malfiar-se

• “fiar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin ferrum. Compare Italian ferro, Romanian and Romansch fier, Friulian fiêr, French fer, Sardinian ferru, Spanish hierro.

fiar m

1. iron

From Old Galician-Portuguese fiar (“to trust”), from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere (“to trust”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish fiar.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)
fiar (first-person singular present fio, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to guarantee
2. to sell on credit, give credit
3. to entrust
4. to confide

Fiando

From Old Galician-Portuguese fiar (“to spin thread”), from Late Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”). Compare Portuguese fiar, Spanish hilar, Italian filare, French filer.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)

1. to spin (make yarn)
   • 1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

     Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

     lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

2. to string together, put together (words or ideas)

• “fiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fiar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fiar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle Irish fíar[1], from Proto-Celtic *wēros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁y- (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

• IPA^(key): /fʲiəɾˠ/[2]

fiar m (genitive singular fiair, nominative plural fiara)

1. slant, tilt, bias, obliquity
2. bend, twist; crookedness, perverseness

fiar (genitive singular masculine féir, genitive singular feminine féire, plural fiara, comparative féire)

1. slanting, tilted, oblique, diagonal, crosswise
2. bent, warped, crooked, perverse

• fiarshúil

fiar (present analytic fiarann, future analytic fiarfaidh, verbal noun fiaradh, past participle fiartha)

1. slant, tilt, veer, turn
2. bend, twist, distort

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fiar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “fiar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fiar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin ferus (compare French fier).

fiar m

1. (Guernsey) pleased

• IPA^(key): /fi.ˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere.

fiar

1. to trust

• fiador

• Galician: fiar
• Portuguese: fiar

• Universo Cantigas - "fiar₁"

Inherited from Late Latin fīlāre.

fiar

1. to spin (thread)

• fio

• Galician: fiar
• Portuguese: fiar

• Universo Cantigas - "fiar₂"

• Hyphenation: fi‧ar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fiar (“to trust”), from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere.[1] Compare Galician and Spanish fiar.

fiar (first-person singular present fio, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)

1. (Portugal) to trust

   Synonyms: confiar, acreditar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fiar (“to spin thread”), from Late Latin fīlāre,[1] from Latin fīlum. Compare Galician fiar, Spanish hilar, Italian filare, French filer.

fiar (first-person singular present fio, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)

1. to spin (thread)

• desfiar

• fio

• fiaraich (verb)

From Middle Irish fíar, from Proto-Celtic *wēros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁-y (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

• IPA^(key): /fiəɾ/

fiar (comparative fiara)

1. bent, crooked
2. slanting, oblique
3. squinting (of an eye)
4. cunning, sly

fiar (past dh'fhiar, future fiaraidh, verbal noun fiaradh, past participle fiarte)

1. bend (become bended)
2. bend, slant, twist

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “fiar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fíar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Old Spanish fiar, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere with a change in conjugation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjaɾ/ [ˈfjaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fiar

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fie, past participle fiado)

1. to guarantee
2. to sell on credit, give credit, put on the slate
3. to entrust
4. to confide
5. (reflexive) (+ de) to trust

   Synonym: confiar

• “fiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014