fier

See also: Fier, fiêr, -fier, and -ifier

English

Noun

fier (plural fiers)

1. Archaic form of fire.
   • 1849, William Strachey, ‎Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92:

     They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.

   • 2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, →ISBN:

     The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.

   • 2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, →ISBN, page 45:

     The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1989). Oxford University Press. Vol. V. pp. 242-243.

Anagrams

• FIRE, Frie, fire, refi, reif, rief, rife

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *pʰera, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)perHom < *(s)perH- (“to fly”). Compare Proto-Slavic *pero (“feather”), English fern, Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Latvian spā̀rns (“wing”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfi.ɛɾ]

Noun

fier m (definite fieri)

1. fern

Derived terms

• fierajë
• fierishtë
• fierkuqe
• fierore

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fir/, [fiːr]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ir

Adjective

fier (comparative fierder, superlative fierst)

1. proud

Inflection

Declension of fier
uninflected	fier
inflected	fiere
comparative	fierder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		fier	fierder	het fierst het fierste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	fiere	fierdere	fierste
	n. sing.	fier	fierder	fierste
	plural	fiere	fierdere	fierste
definite		fiere	fierdere	fierste
partitive		fiers	fierders	—

Synonyms

• trots

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French

Etymology 1

From Old French fer, from Latin ferus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛʁ/

Adjective

fier (feminine fière, masculine plural fiers, feminine plural fières)

1. proud
2. remarkable (in this sense always used before the noun it qualifies)

Synonyms

• hautain

Related terms

• féral
• féroce
• fier-à-bras

• fièrement
• fiérot
• fierté

Etymology 2

From Old French fier, from Latin fīdō.

Pronunciation

• audio (se fier)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /fje/

Verb

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier à quelqu'un) to trust someone (à), to rely on someone (à)

Derived terms

• confier
• défier
• méfier

Further reading

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

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Hunsrik

Hunsrik cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fier     Ordinal : fiert

Etymology

From Central Franconian vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ/

Numeral

fier

1. four

   Ich hon fier Menner gesihn.

   I have seen four men.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Middle English

Noun

fier

1. Alternative form of figer

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Old French

Alternative forms

• fïer (diaereses not universally used by scholars of Old French)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fīdō.

Verb

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier) to trust (someone, something)
   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Trestuit por lor seignor prioient,
     Qu’an Deu et an lui se fioient

     They all prayed for their master
     In him, and in God they put their trust

Related terms

• fiance

Descendants

• French: fier, (se) fier

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Romanian

Chemical element
Fe
Previous: mangan (Mn)
Next: cobalt (Co)

Alternative forms

• fer — regional

Etymology

From Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjer/

Noun

fier n (plural fiare)

1. (uncountable) iron

   Fier este un metal. ― Iron is a metal.

   Bunica mea are multe oale de fier. ― My grandmother has many iron pots.

2. (countable) tool made of iron

Declension

Declension of fier

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fier	fierul	(niște) fiare	fiarele
genitive/dative	(unui) fier	fierului	(unor) fiare	fiarelor
vocative	fierule		fiarelor

Derived terms

• înfiera
• fier de călcat
• fier vechi

Related terms

• fierar
• fierătaie
• fieros

References

• fier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin ferrum. Compare Friulian fiêr.

Noun

fier m

1. iron

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːʀ/

Noun

fier m (plural fiers)

1. iron

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West Frisian

Adjective

fier

1. far, distant

Inflection

Inflection of fier
uninflected	fier
inflected	fiere
comparative	fierder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		fier	fierder	it fierst it fierste
indefinite	c. sing.	fiere	fierdere	fierste
	n. sing.	fier	fierder	fierste
	plural	fiere	fierdere	fierste
definite		fiere	fierdere	fierste
partitive		fiers	fierders	—

Further reading

• “fier”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011