mire
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
Etymology 1
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)
- 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)
- An undesirable situation, a predicament.
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Verb
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- (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
- (intransitive) To sink into mud.
- (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
- (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
- c. 1598 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
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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)
Related terms
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
(deprecated template usage) mire
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
mire
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“I wonder at”).
Noun
mire f (plural mires)
- (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
- foresight (of rifle)
- target (literal, figurative)
- (television) test pattern
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mire
- inflection of mirer:
Further reading
- “mire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
mire
Hungarian
Etymology
mi (“what?”) + -re (sublative case suffix)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mire
Pronoun
mire
Adverb
mire (not comparable)
- whereupon (after which, in consequence)
- Megszidtam, mire sírva fakadt. ― I scolded her, whereupon she started to cry.
- 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)
Declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
mire
- inflection of mear:
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “mire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Italian
Noun
mire f
Anagrams
Ladin
Verb
mire
- inflection of mirer:
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.re/, [ˈmiːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.re/, [ˈmiːre]
Participle
(deprecated template usage) mīre
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)
- Marshy or swampy land; a mire or peat.
- A region of marshy or swampy land.
- A muddy or dirt-covered region.
- (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
- (rare) A quagmire or conundrum.
- (rare) A puddle or pond; a watery hollow.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mīre (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-20.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English *mȳre, *mīere, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
mire
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: mire (“ant”) (obsolete)
References
- “mīre (n.(2))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Portuguese
Verb
mire
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)
Derived terms
See also
References
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish mire (“madness, frenzy, infatuation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mire f (genitive singular mire, plural mirean)
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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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)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
mire
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