cire
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cire (countable and uncountable, plural cires)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French cire, from Old French cire, chiere, ciere, from Latin cēra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cire f (plural cires)
- wax
- beeswax
- 1647, René Descartes, translated by Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, Méditations métaphysiques [Meditations on First Philosophy]:
- Prenons par exemple ce morceau de cire: il vient tout fraîchement d’être tiré de la ruche, il n’a pas encore perdu la douceur du miel qu’il contenoit, il retient encore quelque chose de l’odeur des fleurs dont il a été recueilli […]
- Let us take as an example this piece of beeswax. It has just been taken from the honeycomb, all fresh; it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey that it held; it yet retains something of the scent of the flowers from which it was gathered […]
- earwax
- sealing wax
- (wax) taper (wax candle)
- cere
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cire
- inflection of cirer:
Further reading edit
- “cire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Verb edit
cīre
- inflection of ciō:
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