ire

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

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /aɪɹ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ire, yre, shortened form of iren (“iron”). More at iron.

Noun

ire

  1. (obsolete) Iron.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the cruel ire, red as any gleed

Etymology 2

From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“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 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit एषति (eṣati, “to drive on”)).

Noun

ire (uncountable)

  1. (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
    • (Can we date this quote by Geoffrey Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), The Knight's Tale.
      That lord is now of Thebes the Citee,
      Fulfild of ire and of iniquitee,
      He, for despit and for his tirannye,
      To do the dede bodyes vileynye,
      Of alle oure lordes, whiche that been slawe,
      Hath alle the bodyes on an heep ydrawe,
      And wol nat suffren hem, by noon assent,
      Neither to been yburyed nor ybrent.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      She lik'd not his desire; Fain would be free, but dreaded parents' ire.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Gower and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Confessio Amantis
      "My good father, tell me this;
      "What thing is ire?
      Sonne, it is That in our English wrath is hote."
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Henry IV
      If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Paradise Lost, Book IX
      Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplex'd the Greek and Cytherea's son.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Paradise Lost, Book X
      The sentence, from thy head remov'd, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe; Me! me! only just object of his ire.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      For this th' avenging pow'r employs his darts, And empties all his quiver in our hearts; Thus will persist, relentless in his ire, 'Till the fair slave be render'd to her sire
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  1. (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.
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Dongxiang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

ire

  1. to come

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Latin īra.

Pronunciation

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. (archaic, literary or poetic) ire, anger
    Synonym: colère

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Italian

Etymology 1

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

Template:it-conj-ire

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) īre

  1. present active infinitive of eō

References

  • “ire”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

Pronoun

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

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Etymology 2

Pronoun

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

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Etymology 3

From Old English ēare.

Noun

ire

  1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

ire

  1. Alternative form of here (“their”)
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Middle French

Etymology

Old French ire < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. ire; rage; fury

Descendants

  • French: ire

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īra.

Noun

ire oblique singular, f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)

  1. ire, anger, rage

Descendants

  • → English: ire
  • French: ire (now rare)

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

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, unka

inker, inka

- - -
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

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
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