ire

See also: Ire, IRE, iré, íre, ìre, Irē, -ire, and -iré

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /aɪɹ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ire, yre, shortened form of iren (“iron”). More at iron.

Noun

ire (plural ires)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Iron.
    The cruel ire, red as any gleed. — Chaucer.

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)

  1. (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
Synonyms
Translations

Verb

ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)

  1. (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.
Translations

References

  • ire in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • ire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ire-, compare Mongolian ирэх (ireh), Daur irgw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈrə/, [iˈɾɛ]

Verb

ire

  1. to come

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Latin īra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iʁ/
  • Rhymes: -iʁ

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. (archaic, literary or poetic) ire, anger
    Synonym: colère

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

ire f

  1. plural of ira

Etymology 2

From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō.

Verb

ire

  1. (obsolete, regional, literary) to go

Conjugation

Synonyms

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

īre

  1. present active infinitive of eō

References

  • ire in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

Pronoun

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

References

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ire

  1. Alternative form of hire

References

Etymology 3

From Old English ēare.

Noun

ire

  1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

ire

  1. Alternative form of here (“their”)
References

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ire < Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. ire; rage; fury

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

Synonyms

References

Old French

Etymology

Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)

  1. ire, anger, rage

Descendants

  • English: ire (borrowed)
  • French: ire (now rare)

References

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

ire

  1. Alternative form of ira

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

ire

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of irar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of irar
  3. third-person singular imperative of irar
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