pire

See also: piré and pirë

French

Etymology

From Middle French pire, from Old French pire, originally the nominative singular of peior, from Latin pēior, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Adjective

pire (plural pires)

1. worse

Antonyms

• meilleur

Noun

pire m (uncountable)

1. (le pire) the worst

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• péri, prie, prié, ripe, ripé

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Guaraní

Noun

pire

1. leather

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Latin

Noun

pire

1. vocative singular of pirus

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Mapudungun

Noun

pire (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. snow
2. hail

Synonyms

• piren

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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Old French

Adjective

pire

1. nominative singular of peior
2. Alternative form of peior

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Portuguese

Verb

pire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pirar

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pire

1. mash

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Spanish

Verb

pire

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

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bürge (“flea”), from Proto-Turkic.

Noun

pire

1. flea

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French pierre, from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).

Noun

pire f

1. stone