ire
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.
Noun edit
ire
- (obsolete) Iron.
- 1806, Richard Polwhele, The Language, Literature, and Literary Characters of Cornwall: with Illustrations from Devonshire, page 25:
- […] 'Tell I'm rud as the smith makes the pieces of ire; […]
- 1842, George Philip Rigney Pulman, Rustic Sketches; being poems on angling ... in the dialect of East Devon, page 55:
- A ire thing, moore smart by haff, / That zeed var off 's za theene 's a laff, / An' zum zes edden' 'xac'ly saff, / Stan's in th' place ee did.
Etymology 2 edit
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”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”).
Noun edit
ire (uncountable)
- Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- She lik'd not his desire; Fain would be free but dreadeth parents ire
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- 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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplex'd the Greek and Cytherea's son.
- a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 419:
- 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: [...]
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 3:
- News of this notice from the university was picked up by local media and had the effect of raising the ire of some citizens who saw this as an attack on ‘Chinese heritage’, which in turn resulted in a rapid apology from the university[.]
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Verb edit
ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)
- (transitive, rare) To anger, to irritate.
- 1880, Gleason's Monthly Companion, page 287:
- It doesn't tire a man to put down a carpet so much as it ires him.
- 1915, Dr. Duncan Eve of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in the Southern Medical Journal, volume 4, page 279:
- I heard enough from the gentleman who has just taken his seat, and from my friend, Dr. Caldwell, to ire me just a little bit.
- 1962, Louis L'Amour, Lando, page 3:
- “You have enemies. Is that why you have chosen to leave at this time?”
It ired me that he should think so, but I held my peace, and when I spoke at last, my voice was mild.
- 1968, “H. P. Wasson and Company”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 170, page 298:
- Only one employee testified as to the interrogation. This was Mary Farley who testified that at the time the research interviewer reached her home she was entertaining company and that she was “ired” by the interruption.
- 1992 03, Canadian House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, volume 7, page 8115:
- Mr. Gray (Bonaventure–Îles-de-la-Madeleine): Mr. Speaker, [...] Having been in the House of Commons for seven and one-half years and regardless of political stripe, the thing that angers and ires me the most is to hear downtown metro people talking […]
- 2001 August 1, Xan Nowakowski, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104:
- […] to give up anorexia. Everyone else deserves their food; it ires me to no end—couldn't write “pissed off,” too juvenile—to hear other girls say, “I shouldn't be eating this.” Shut up, I want to say, you're fucking gorgeous.
- 2012 September 14, Jim McGahern, A Leg up on the Canon Book 3: Adaptations of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Kyd's the Spanish Tragedy, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 264:
- Instinctively Lear knows she is making some sense, but he has never been treated in this way before and it ires him into calling Goneril a “degenerate bastard” The decrepit old […]
- 2014 March, John A. Tirpak, “Gates versus the Air Force”, in Air Force Magazine, page 56:
- The origin of Gates’ decapitation of the Air Force’s top leadership clearly lie with the F-22. Gates was ired that “every time Moseley and Air Force secretary Mike Wynne came to see me, it was about a new bomber or more F-22s.”
- 2020, Sarah Hawkswood, River of Sins, Allison and Busby:
- ‘And do not leave Furnaux in a pool of blood, however much he ires you. He has his uses.’
Translations edit
References edit
- “ire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Dongxiang edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Mongolic *ire-, compare Mongolian ирэх (irex), Daur irgw.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ire
- to come
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ire f (plural ires)
Further reading edit
- “ire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
ire f
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ìre (no first-person singular present, no past historic, past participle (regional) ìto, no imperfect, no future, no subjunctive, no imperfect subjunctive, no imperative, auxiliary èssere)
Conjugation edit
infinitive | ìre | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | èssere | gerund | — | |||
present participle | — | past participle | ìto1 | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | ìte1 | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
past historic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
future | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | — | — | ||
negative imperative | — | — | — | — | — |
1Regional.
Including lesser-used forms:
infinitive | ìre | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | èssere | gerund | — | |||
present participle | — | past participle | ìto1 | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | ìte1 | — |
imperfect | — | — | ìva2 | — | — | ìvano2 |
past historic | — | ìsti2 | — | — | — | ìrono2 |
future | — | — | — | irémo2 | iréte2 | — |
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 | èa2 | èa2 | èa2 | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | — | — | ||
negative imperative | — | — | — | — | — |
1Regional.
2Archaic or poetic.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.re/, [ˈiːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.re/, [ˈiːre]
Verb edit
īre
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Determiner edit
ire
- Alternative form of hire (“her”)
Pronoun edit
ire
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
ire
- Alternative form of hire (“her”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
ire
- Alternative form of ere (“ear”)
Etymology 4 edit
Determiner edit
ire
- Alternative form of here (“their”)
Etymology 5 edit
From Old French ire (“ire”) or Latin īra (“wrath, rage”). See English ire for more.
Noun edit
ire (uncountable)
- anger, wrath
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
- "Mi goode fader, tell me this:
What thing is Ire? Sone, it is
That in oure englissh Wrathe is hote […]"- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- “īre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Old French ire < Latin īra.
Noun edit
ire f (plural ires)
Descendants edit
- French: ire
Neapolitan edit
Verb edit
ire
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)
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References edit
- “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ire oblique singular, f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ire)
- ire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Old Saxon edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Pronoun edit
ire
- Alternative form of ira
Declension edit
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 | - | - | - | |
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 edit
Verb edit
ire
- inflection of irar:
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔiˈɾe/, [ʔɪˈɾɛ]
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: i‧re
Pronoun edit
iré (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)
Yoruba edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare with oore (“blessing”) and rere (“goodness”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ire
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
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ire
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ìre
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ìré
- tail feather
- bákùkọ́ bá ń kọ, jìnnìjìnnnì níí mú ìré ìdí i rẹ̀ ― when a rooster crows, a state of vibration will overwhelm its tail feathers
Related terms edit
- ìyẹ́ (“feather”)
Etymology 5 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
irè
Derived terms edit
- ìkórè (“harvest”)
Etymology 6 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
iré
Derived terms edit
- ohun àfiṣiré (“play toy”)
- ṣiré (“to play”)