ire
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ire, yre, shortened form of iren (“iron”). More at iron.
Etymology 2
From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin ira (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *eis- (“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 aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it drives on').
Noun
ire (uncountable)
- (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.
- 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.
- John Sidney
- She lik'd not his desire; Fain would be free, but dreaded parents' ire.
- John Gower, Confessio Amantis.
- "My good father, tell me this;
- "What thing is ire?
- Sonne, it is That in our English wrath is hote."
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV.
- 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.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX.
- Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplex'd the Greek and Cytherea's son.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X.
- The sentence, from thy head remov'd, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe; Me! me! only just object of his ire.
- John Dryden
- 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
- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.
Related terms
Translations
great anger
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Verb
ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)
Translations
References
- ire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- ire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dongxiang
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic *ire-, compare Mongolian ирэх (ireh), Daur irgw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈrə/, [iˈɾɛ]
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iʁ/
- Rhymes: -iʁ
Further reading
- “ire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Conjugation
- Highly defective. Mostly obsolete (with the exceptions of ire, ito and ite, still used in regional contexts).
Conjugation of ire
infinitive | ire | |||||
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auxiliary verb | essere | gerund | — | |||
present participle | — | past participle | ito | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | ite | — |
imperfect | — | — | iva | — | — | ivano |
past historic | — | isti | — | — | — | irono |
future | — | — | — | irémo | iréte | — |
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 | ea | ea | ea | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | ite | — |
Latin
Middle English
References
- “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.
References
- “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.
Etymology 3
From Old English ēare.
References
- “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
Middle French
Etymology
Old French ire < Latin īra.
Norwegian Bokmål
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Norwegian Nynorsk
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Old French
References
- 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
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Declension
Old Saxon personal pronouns
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 | - | - | - | |
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
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