nacren.

Brit.

/ˈneɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈneɪkər/

Forms: 1500s nackre, 1500s–1600s nakre, 1600s nacker, 1600s–1800s naker, 1600s– nacre.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French nacre.

Etymology: < Middle French, French nacre mother-of-pearl (1538; 1398 as nacle) < post-classical Latin nacchara, nacara mother-of-pearl (1295; also nacrum, 1347), of uncertain origin, perhaps Arabic (see note). Compare Italian nacchera mother-of-pearl (1356 in this sense: see note), Catalan nacre mother-of-pearl (1361), Spanish nácar mother-of-pearl (1494; also as †nacre (1510)), Portuguese nácar mother-of-pearl (17th cent.).As well as meaning ‘mother-of-pearl’, Italian nacchera denoted a type of small kettledrum used by the Saracens ( < Arabic naqqāra (small) drum, kettledrum: see naker n.¹) and, in the plural nacchere , castanets (compare knacker n.¹). An allusion to the similarity of shape between mother-of-pearl shells and castanets is therefore supposed by many writers to support a derivation from Arabic. However, J. Corominas Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (1981) at nácar suggests that the Romance words relating to mother-of-pearl may in fact have originated from a related Arabic word (nāqūr), of which he gives the meaning as ‘hunting horn’, ‘spiral shell’, and hence ‘shell, pearl-bearing shellfish’; the Qur'anic meaning, however, is ‘trumpet (as sounded on the Last Day)’, which conceivably could have led to the sense ‘trumpet-shaped shell’ or ‘trumpet-shell’, and hence ‘lining of a shell’. But the origin may actually lie in the technical language of pearlers in the Gulf region.

†1. A pen shell or other shellfish yielding mother-of-pearl. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl

mother pearl1593

nacre1598

mother-of-pearl1601

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Naccare... Also the shell-fish which some call a nackre.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xlii. 261 The Nacre also called Pinnæ, is of the kind of Shell-fishes. It is..never without a companion,..which beareth the Nacre companie.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 157 While the Pearle-Fish gaping wide doth glister, Much Frye (allur'd with the bright siluer luster Of her rich Casket) flocks into the Nacre.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 162 Every one of these Barks hath Men for Diving to the bottom of the Sea and picking up the Shell-fish or Nacres.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 188 Polishing the Rest of his Shells, some, as fine as tho' they had been Nakers of Pearl.

1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) xxxvii. 46 The Oyster, affordeth sweet meat... The Naker, Pearls.

1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 114 Pinna. Nacre. Its animal a Slug.

1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature II. i. 19 Among the more elegant of this division, is the nacre, pinna, or sea-pen.

2. = mother-of-pearl n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [noun] > mother-of-pearl

mother pearlc1500

mother-of-pearl1547

nacre1689

burgaudine1753

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl > mother of pearl

mother-of-pearl1547

pearl shell1614

nacre1689

1689 Vota Oxoniensia sig. U Hir Hull is Nacre Calk'd with Ambergreece.

1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 178 It is a shining Naker within.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/1 Orient, the fine naker, or mother of pearle colour, which is seen on some shells.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 316 Of the shells composed of nacre or mother of pearl, I selected the oyster.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 414 These exquisite colours arise from the laminar naker, or what is commonly called mother-of-pearl, of a kind of nautilus.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxii. 510 The iridescent nacre of the shell was used in this way.

1888 Contemp. Rev. May 690 A fine pearl is worth from one to eight pounds sterling a grain according to size, colour, and ‘nacre’.

1895 ‘C. Holland’ My Japanese Wife 61 A flat shell, with lovely mother-of-pearl tints on its nacre hollow.

1929 M. Kennedy in Legion Bk. 53 The waters were as pale as nacre.

1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 6/2 Their eyes Have the sheen of the nacre lining of oysters.

1987 World Mag. Oct. 45/2 Originally no more than a grain of sand irritating its host, the Pearl is a succession of concentric layers of Nacre.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nacre
释义	nacren. Brit. /ˈneɪkə/, U.S. /ˈneɪkər/ Forms: 1500s nackre, 1500s–1600s nakre, 1600s nacker, 1600s–1800s naker, 1600s– nacre. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French nacre. Etymology: < Middle French, French nacre mother-of-pearl (1538; 1398 as nacle) < post-classical Latin nacchara, nacara mother-of-pearl (1295; also nacrum, 1347), of uncertain origin, perhaps Arabic (see note). Compare Italian nacchera mother-of-pearl (1356 in this sense: see note), Catalan nacre mother-of-pearl (1361), Spanish nácar mother-of-pearl (1494; also as †nacre (1510)), Portuguese nácar mother-of-pearl (17th cent.).As well as meaning ‘mother-of-pearl’, Italian nacchera denoted a type of small kettledrum used by the Saracens ( < Arabic naqqāra (small) drum, kettledrum: see naker n.¹) and, in the plural nacchere , castanets (compare knacker n.¹). An allusion to the similarity of shape between mother-of-pearl shells and castanets is therefore supposed by many writers to support a derivation from Arabic. However, J. Corominas Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (1981) at nácar suggests that the Romance words relating to mother-of-pearl may in fact have originated from a related Arabic word (nāqūr), of which he gives the meaning as ‘hunting horn’, ‘spiral shell’, and hence ‘shell, pearl-bearing shellfish’; the Qur'anic meaning, however, is ‘trumpet (as sounded on the Last Day)’, which conceivably could have led to the sense ‘trumpet-shaped shell’ or ‘trumpet-shell’, and hence ‘lining of a shell’. But the origin may actually lie in the technical language of pearlers in the Gulf region. †1. A pen shell or other shellfish yielding mother-of-pearl. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl mother pearl1593 nacre1598 mother-of-pearl1601 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Naccare... Also the shell-fish which some call a nackre. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xlii. 261 The Nacre also called Pinnæ, is of the kind of Shell-fishes. It is..never without a companion,..which beareth the Nacre companie. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 157 While the Pearle-Fish gaping wide doth glister, Much Frye (allur'd with the bright siluer luster Of her rich Casket) flocks into the Nacre. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 162 Every one of these Barks hath Men for Diving to the bottom of the Sea and picking up the Shell-fish or Nacres. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 188 Polishing the Rest of his Shells, some, as fine as tho' they had been Nakers of Pearl. 1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) xxxvii. 46 The Oyster, affordeth sweet meat... The Naker, Pearls. 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 114 Pinna. Nacre. Its animal a Slug. 1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature II. i. 19 Among the more elegant of this division, is the nacre, pinna, or sea-pen. 2. = mother-of-pearl n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [noun] > mother-of-pearl mother pearlc1500 mother-of-pearl1547 nacre1689 burgaudine1753 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl > mother of pearl mother-of-pearl1547 pearl shell1614 nacre1689 1689 Vota Oxoniensia sig. U Hir Hull is Nacre Calk'd with Ambergreece. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 178 It is a shining Naker within. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/1 Orient, the fine naker, or mother of pearle colour, which is seen on some shells. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 316 Of the shells composed of nacre or mother of pearl, I selected the oyster. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 414 These exquisite colours arise from the laminar naker, or what is commonly called mother-of-pearl, of a kind of nautilus. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxii. 510 The iridescent nacre of the shell was used in this way. 1888 Contemp. Rev. May 690 A fine pearl is worth from one to eight pounds sterling a grain according to size, colour, and ‘nacre’. 1895 ‘C. Holland’ My Japanese Wife 61 A flat shell, with lovely mother-of-pearl tints on its nacre hollow. 1929 M. Kennedy in Legion Bk. 53 The waters were as pale as nacre. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 6/2 Their eyes Have the sheen of the nacre lining of oysters. 1987 World Mag. Oct. 45/2 Originally no more than a grain of sand irritating its host, the Pearl is a succession of concentric layers of Nacre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598
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