mire

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See also: Mire, miré, mirė, mirë, mìre, míre, and míře

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Etymology 1

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From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).

Noun

mire (countable and uncountable, plural mires)

  1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
    • When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire. (Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
    Synonyms: peatland, quag
    Hypernym: wetland
    Hyponyms: bog, fen
  2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
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Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
    to mire a horse or wagon
    Synonyms: bemire, enmire
  2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
  4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
    • c. 1598 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
      Why had I not with charitable hand
      Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
      Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,
      I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;
      This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?
    Synonym: bemire

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mire, from Old English *mȳre, *mīere, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ. Cognate to Old Norse maurr, Danish myre, Middle Dutch miere (“ant”) (Dutch mier). All probably from Proto-Indo-European *morwi (“ant”), whence also cognate to Latin formīca.

Noun

mire (plural mires)

  1. (obsolete) An ant.

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mire

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

Esperanto

Etymology

From miri +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmire]
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: mi‧re

Adverb

mire

  1. in surprise, in awe, in an amazed way

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miʁ/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

From Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“I wonder at”).

Noun

mire f (plural mires)

  1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
  2. foresight (of rifle)
  3. target (literal, figurative)
  4. (television) test pattern

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mire

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

mire

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

Hungarian

Etymology

mi (“what?”) +‎ -re (sublative case suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmirɛ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧re

Pronoun

mire

  1. sublative singular of mi
    Mire gondolsz? ― What are you thinking about?

Pronoun

mire

  1. for what (purpose)?
    Mire jó ez? ― What is it for?

Adverb

mire (not comparable)

  1. whereupon (after which, in consequence)
    Megszidtam, mire sírva fakadt. ― I scolded her, whereupon she started to cry.
  2. by the time, when
    Mire hazaértem, a vendégek már elmentek. ― By the time I got home, the guests had left.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • mire in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mire (“madness, frenzy, infatuation”).

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire)

  1. quickness, rapidity
  2. spiritedness, ardor
  3. madness, frenzy, mania
    Synonym: buile
Declension
Declension of mire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative mire
Vocative a mhire
Genitive mire
Dative mire

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an mhire
Genitive na mire
Dative leis an mire

don mhire

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

mire

  1. inflection of mear:
    1. genitive feminine singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mire mhire not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Italian

Noun

mire f

  1. plural of mira

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

mire

  1. inflection of mirer:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive

Latin

Pronunciation

Participle

(deprecated template usage) mīre

  1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

References

  • “mire”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mire”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse mýrr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːr/
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Noun

mire (plural mires)

  2. Marshy or swampy land; a mire or peat.
  3. A region of marshy or swampy land.
  4. A muddy or dirt-covered region.
  5. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
  6. (rare) A quagmire or conundrum.
  7. (rare) A puddle or pond; a watery hollow.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: mire (“swamp”)
  • Scots: mire
References

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English *mȳre, *mīere, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

mire

  2. ant
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: mire (“ant”) (obsolete)
References

Portuguese

Verb

mire

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Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a substratum word, or from Greek μύρον (mýron, “ointment, uncture, holy oil”), relating to the ceremony of the Orthodox wedding. Another theory suggests Latin mīles (“soldier”), possibly mirroring semantic evolution of the rare voină (“husband”), from Slavic воинъ (voinŭ, “warrior”). Other less likely etymologies proposed include Turkish amir (“chief”), Cuman mir ("prince"), a Vulgar Latin *milex, from Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “adolescent; boy”), or an old Indo-European term[1].

Possibly related to Albanian mirë (“good”). Replaced mărit, which only survived in some regional dialects.

Noun

mire m (plural miri)

  1. bridegroom

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ http://dexonline.ro/definitie/mire

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mire (“madness, frenzy, infatuation”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire, plural mirean)

  1. merriment, mirth, frolic

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mire mhire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mire (Cyrillic spelling мире)

  1. third-person plural present of miriti

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiɾe/ [ˈmi.ɾe]

Verb

mire

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mirar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mirar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mirar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mirar.
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