ire
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English ire, yre, shortened form of iren (“iron”). More at iron.
Noun[edit]
ire (plural ires)
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Iron.
- The cruel ire, red as any gleed. — Chaucer.
Etymology 2[edit]
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 (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it drives on').
Noun[edit]
ire (uncountable)
- (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
great anger
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Verb[edit]
ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)
- (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.
Translations[edit]
anger, fret
References[edit]
- ire in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ire f (plural ires)
- (poetic) ire
Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
- “ire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
ire f
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō.
Verb[edit]
ire
Conjugation[edit]
- Highly defective conjugation. This verb's forms are mostly obsolete (with the exceptions of ire, ito and ite, still used in regional contexts).
Conjugation of ire
| infinitive | ire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | essere | gerund | — | |||
| present participle | — | past participle | ito | |||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
| present | — | — | — | — | ite | — |
| imperfect | — | — | iva | — | — | ivano |
| past historic | — | isti | — | — | — | irono |
| future | — | — | — | irémo | iréte | — |
| conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
| present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
| present | ea | ea | ea | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
| non ire | — | — | ite | — | ||
Synonyms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
īre
References[edit]
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French ire < Latin īra.
Noun[edit]
ire f (plural ires)
Descendants[edit]
- French: ire
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ire f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ire)
- ire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Old Saxon[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Pronoun[edit]
ire
- Alternative form of ira
Declension[edit]
Old Saxon personal pronouns
| Personal pronouns | |||||
| Singular | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
| Nominative | ik | thū | hē | siu | it |
| Accusative | mī, me, mik | thī, thik | ina | sia | |
| Dative | mī | thī | imu | iru | it |
| Genitive | mīn | thīn | is | ira | is |
| Dual | 1. | 2. | - | - | - |
| Nominative | wit | git | - | - | - |
| Accusative | unk | ink | - | - | - |
| Dative | |||||
| Genitive | unkero | - | - | - | |
| Plural | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
| Nominative | wī, we | gī, ge | sia | sia | siu |
| Accusative | ūs, unsik | eu, iu, iuu | |||
| Dative | ūs | im | |||
| Genitive | ūser | euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera | iro | ||
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
ire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of irar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of irar
- third-person singular imperative of irar
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