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gire

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See also: Gire, giré, and girę

English

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Noun

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gire (plural gires)

  1. Obsolete form of gyre.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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gire

  1. inflection of girer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin īre.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.re/
    • Rhymes: -ire
    • Hyphenation: gì‧re

    Verb

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    gìre (no first-person singular present, first-person singular past historic gìi, past participle gìto, no subjunctive, no second-person singular imperative, auxiliary èssere)

    1. (archaic, dialectal, literary) to go
      Synonym: andare
      • 13th c., Guittone d'Arezzo, A Finfo e a' compagni. - Lettera XX.[1], published 1745, page 52, collected in Lettere di fra' Guittone d'Arezzo:
        E com'è mal cortese, [] chi saggio uomo , che studia notte , e giorno , faccendo suo camino gendo a Inferno?
        And how ignoble is he who, [being a] wise man, studies night and day, making his way going to Hell?
      • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
        Appresso mosse a man sinistra il piede:
        lasciammo il muro e gimmo inver’ lo mezzo
        per un sentier ch’a una valle fiede
        Afterwards, the foot moved to the left. We left the wall and went towards the center, through a path which ends in a valley
      • 1336, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Libro quarto, Capitolo 43 [Fourth book, Chapter 43]”, in Filocolo[2], Milan, published 1998:
        pareami ch’egli fosse tanto allegro in se medesimo, quanto alcuna cosa mai esser potesse, e gisse cantando
        It seemed to me that he was, within himself, as happy as anything could ever be, and he went singing
      • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici[3], collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, section XXV, lines 7–8:
        e la ingegnosa pecchia al primo albore
        giva predando ora uno or altro fiore.
        And the ingenious bee went preying upon blossom after blossom in the first light of dawn.
      • 1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto terzo [Third canto]”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered]‎[4], Erasmo Viotti, page 57:
        Pur non tutto in vano; e ne' confini
        Del bianco collo il bel capo ferille
        Yet it didn't all go in vain, and he wounded her beautiful head around the white neck
      • 17th c., Francesco De Lemene, “Per le conclusioni amorose esposte dal Tasso con la dottrina platonica, e spiegate in Sonetti dal sig. Ipolito Neri - Sonetto”, in Raccolta di poesie - Parte seconda[5], published 1699, page 140:
        Api, voi, che d'Imetto i più bei fiori
        Succiando giste, onde ridente è il prato
        You, bees, who went sucking the most beautiful flowers of Hymettus, for which the field is glad

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    Further reading

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    • gire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
    • Accademia della Crusca (1729–1738), “gire”, in Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca (in Italian), 4 edition – on www.lessicografia.it
    • Väänänen, Veikko. 1981. Introduction au latin vulgaire. Paris: Kincksieck.

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    Middle English

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    Adjective

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    gire

    1. alternative form of gery

    Pali

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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    gire

    1. vocative singular of girā (word)

    Portuguese

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    Verb

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    gire

    1. inflection of girar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Spanish

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    Verb

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    gire

    1. inflection of girar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Turkish

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    Verb

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    gire

    1. third-person singular optative of girmek