ire

See also: Ire, IRE, iré, íre, ìre, Irē, -ire, and -iré

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/

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• 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 (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it drives on').

Noun

ire (uncountable)

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• fury
• rage
• wrath

Related terms

• irascibility
• irascible
• irate
• ireful

Translations

great anger

• Catalan: ira (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憤怒 (zh), 愤怒 (zh) (fènnù)

• Dutch: toorn (nl) m, woede (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolero (eo)
• Finnish: viha (fi)
• French: ire (fr) f, colère (fr) f
• German: Ärger (de) m, Wut (de) f, Zorn (de) m
• Italian: ira (it) f
• Japanese: 怒り (ja) (いかり, ikari)

• Macedonian: гнев m (gnev), бес m (бес)
• Maori: hīnawanawa, hīkaka
• Persian: غضب‎ (fa) (ğazab)
• Polish: wściekłość (pl) f, furia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ira (pt) f
• Romanian: mânie (ro) f, furie (ro) f
• Russian: гнев (ru) m (gnev), я́рость (ru) f (járostʹ), злость (ru) f (zlostʹ), зло́ба (ru) f (zlóba)
• Spanish: ira (es) f
• Thai: ความโกรธ (kwaam gròht), ความโมโห (kwaam mohŏh), โทสะ (tohsà)

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
• Macedonian: беснее (bésnee)

• Romanian: înfuria (ro), mânia (ro)
• Thai: ทำให้โกรธ (tam hâi gròht), ทำให้โกรธเคือง (tam hâi gròht keuang)

References

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

Anagrams

• -ier, EIR, Eri., eir, rei, rie

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Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ire-, compare Mongolian ирэх (ireh), Daur irgw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈrə/, [iˈɾɛ]

Verb

ire

1. to come

Derived terms

• iregva (“to make come”)
• iredan (“manner of coming”)

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French

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

1. (poetic) ire

Anagrams

• rie

Further reading

• “ire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

ire f

1. plural of ira

Etymology 2

From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō.

Verb

ire

1. (obsolete, regional, literary) to go

Conjugation

• Highly defective. 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
		—	—	—	ite	—

Synonyms

• andare, gire

Anagrams

• eri, rei, riè

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Latin

Verb

īre

1. present active infinitive of eō

References

• ire in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French ire < Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

1. ire; rage; fury

Descendants

• French: ire

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)

1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

Synonyms

• irlender
• irlending

Related terms

• Republikken Irland, Irland
• irsk

References

• “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)

1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

Synonyms

• irlendar
• irlending

Related terms

• Republikken Irland, Irland
• irsk

References

• “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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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 (borrowed)
• French: ire (now rare)

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ire)
• ire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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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 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

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Portuguese

Verb

ire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of irar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of irar
3. third-person singular imperative of irar