mire

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪɚ/, /ˈmaɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

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).

mire (countable and uncountable, plural mires)

1. 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)
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
   • 2017 April 2, Dafydd Pritchard, “Swansea City 0-0 Middlesbrough”, in BBC Sport‎, London:

     Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.

• (deep mud): peatland, quag

• (deep mud): wetland

• (deep mud): bog, fen

mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

1. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

   to mire a horse or wagon

2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.
4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, Scene 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’?

• unmired

• (cause to become stuck in mud): bemire, enmire
• (soil with mud): bemire

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.

mire (plural mires)

1. (obsolete) An ant.

• pismire, antmire

• IMer, Meri, emir, meri, reim, riem, rime

mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

miri +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈmire/
• Hyphenation: mi‧re
• Rhymes: -ire

mire

1. in surprise, in awe, in an amazed way

From Italian mira, from mīrō (“I wonder at”).

• IPA^(key): /miʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

mire f (plural mires)

1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
2. foresight (of rifle)
3. target (literal, figurative)
4. (television) test pattern

mire

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of mirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
5. second-person singular imperative of mirer

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

• émir, Remi, Rémi, rime, rimé

mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

mi (“what?”) +‎ -re

• IPA^(key): [ˈmirɛ]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧re

mire

1. sublative singular of mi

   Mire gondolsz? ― What are you thinking about?

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪɾʲə/

mire f (genitive singular mire)

1. quickness, rapidity
2. spiritedness, ardor
3. madness, frenzy, mania

• (madness, frenzy, mania): buile

mire

1. genitive feminine singular of mear
2. comparative degree of mear

mire f

1. plural of mira

• meri, remi, rime

mire

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirer
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
4. third-person plural present subjunctive of mirer

mīre

1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

• 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

Borrowed from Old Norse mýrr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō.

• myre, myer, muire, myrre, muyre

• IPA^(key): /miːr/
• (SW England) IPA^(key): /myːr/

mire (plural mires)

1. Marshy or swampy land; a mire or peat.
2. A region of marshy or swampy land.
3. A muddy or dirt-covered region.
4. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
5. (rare) A quagmire or conundrum.
6. (rare) A puddle or pond; a watery hollow.

• myren

• English: mire (“swamp”)
• Scots: mire

• “mīre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-20.

Inherited from Old English *mȳre, *mīere, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ.

• myre

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːr(ə)/

mire

1. ant

• pissemyre

• English: mire (“ant”) (obsolete)

• “mīre (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

mire

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mirar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of mirar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mirar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mirar

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 vojnŭ ("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.

mire m (plural miri)

1. bridegroom

• mireasă

• mir
• soț

mire f (genitive singular mire, plural mirean)

1. merriment, mirth, frolic

• gille-mirein

mire

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