ire

See also Ire, iré, -ire, and -iré

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /aɪɹ/
• (UK) IPA: /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ire, yre, shortened form of iren (“iron”). More at iron.

Noun

ire (plural ires)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Iron.

   The cruel ire, red as any gleed. — Chaucer.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin ira (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *eis- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), οἶστρος (oĩstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it drives on').

Noun

ire (uncountable)

1. (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.

Synonyms

• fury
• rage
• wrath

Related terms

• irascibility
• irascible
• irate
• ireful

Translations

great anger

• Catalan: ira (ca) f
• Dutch: toorn (nl) m, woede (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolero (eo)
• Finnish: viha (fi)
• French: ire (fr) f
• Italian: ira (it) f

• Macedonian: гнев (mk) (gnev) m, бес (mk) (бес) m
• Portuguese: ira (pt) f
• Romanian: mânie (ro) f, furie (ro) f
• Spanish: ira (es) f
• Thai: ความโกรธ (th), ความโมโห (th), โทสะ (th)

Verb

ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)

1. (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.

Translations

anger, fret

• Dutch: woeden (nl), laaien (nl)
• Faroese: øsa (fo)
• Macedonian: беснее (mk) (bésnee)

• Romanian: înfuria (ro), mânia (ro)
• Thai: ทำให้โกรธ (th), ทำให้โกรธเคือง (th)

References

• ire in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• ire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• EIR

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French

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

1. (poetic) ire

Anagrams

• rie

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Italian

Noun

ire f

1. Plural form of ira

Anagrams

• eri, rei, riè

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Latin

Verb

īre

1. present active infinitive of eō

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Norwegian

Noun

ire

1. Person from Ireland, Irishman.

Inflection

    Inflection of ire

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	ire	iren	irer	irene
Nynorsk m	ire	iren	irar	irane

Synonyms

• irlender (Bokmål)
• irlendar (Nynorsk)
• irlending

Related terms

• Republikken Irland, Irland
• irsk

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Old French

Etymology

Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)

1. ire, anger, rage

Descendants

• English: ire
• French: ire (rare)

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• ira
• iro
• iru

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

ire

1. Alternative form of ira.

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronoun declensions

Personal pronouns
Singular	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	ik	thū	hē	sīu	it
Accusative	mī, mik	thī, thik	ina	sīa
Dative	mī	thī	imu	iru	it
Genitive	mīn	thīn	is	ira	is
Dual	1.	2.	-	-	-
Nominative	wit	git	-	-	-
Accusative	unk	ink	-	-	-
Dative
Genitive	unkaro	inka	-	-	-
Plural	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	wī	gī	sīa	sīa	sīu
Accusative	ūs	īu, gīu
Dative			im
Genitive	ūsar	īuwar, gīuwar	iro