mire

See also: Mire, miré, mirė, mirë, mìre, and míre

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish 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).

Noun

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.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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. (transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.
  3. (transitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
    • Shakespeare
      Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Translations

Etymology 2

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”)

Noun

mire (plural mires)

  1. (obsolete) An ant.

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

mire

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

Esperanto

Etymology

miri +‎ -e

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

mire

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miʁ/

Noun

mire f (plural mires)

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

Verb

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

mire

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

Hungarian

Etymology

mi (“what?”) +‎ -re

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmirɛ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧re

Pronoun

mire

  1. sublative singular of mi
    Mire gondolsz? ― What are you thinking about?

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪɾʲə/

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire)

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

Declension

Synonyms

  • (madness, frenzy, mania): buile

Adjective

mire

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mire mhire not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Noun

mire f

  1. plural of mira

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

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

Latin

Participle

mīre

  1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

References

  • 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

Portuguese

Verb

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

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a substratum word, or from Greek μύρον ("ointment, uncture, holy oil"), relating to the ceremony of the Orthodox wedding. Another theory suggests Latin miles (“soldier”), possibly mirroring semantic evolution of the rare voină ("husband"), from Slavic vojnŭ ("warrior"). [1]

Possibly related to Albanian mirë (“good”). Replaced mărit, which only survived in some regional dialects.

Noun

mire m (plural miri)

  1. bridegroom

Derived terms

See also

References

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire, plural mirean)

  1. merriment, mirth, frolic

Derived terms

Spanish

Verb

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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.