impire
English
Noun
impire (plural impires)
- Obsolete form of umpire.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Huloet to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish impere, impire, from Latin imperium.
Noun
impire m (genitive singular impire, nominative plural impirí)
Declension
Declension of impire
Derived terms
- banimpire m (“empress”)
- impireacht f (“empire”)
- impiriúil (“imperial”, adjective)
Related terms
- impiriúlachas m (“imperialism”)
- impiriúlaí m (“imperialist”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
impire | n-impire | himpire | t-impire |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “impire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “impere, impire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
impire m (genitive singular impire, plural impirean)
- Alternative form of ìmpire
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
impire | n-impire | h-impire | t-impire |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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