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Dir.

Dir.

See also: dir, Dir, dir-, and dír-

English

Noun

Dir.

  1. (law) Abbreviation of director.

Usage notes

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

dir.

dir

See also: Dir, Dir., dir-, and dír-

English

Noun

dir (plural dirs)

  1. Abbreviation of direction.
  2. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.

Adjective

dir (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of direct.

Anagrams


Asturian

Etymology

From Latin īre, present active infinitive of ; the forms beginning with V from corresponding forms of vādō; the forms beginning with F from the corresponding forms of sum.

Verb

dir

  1. to go

Conjugation

From http://ast.oslin.org/index.php?action=lemma&lemma=17232


Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diʁ/

Noun

dir m

  1. steel

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old Provençal dir, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (to show, point out).

Verb

dir (first-person singular present dic, past participle dit)

  1. to say

Conjugation

References


German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /diːɐ̯/
  • Rhymes: -iːɐ̯
  • (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA(key): /dɐ/

Pronoun

dir

  1. (personal) dative of du; you, to you.
  2. (reflexive) dative; yourself, to yourself.

Italian

Verb

dir

  1. apocopic form of dire

Lojban

Rafsi

dir

  1. rafsi of dicra.

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

  • der (unstressed)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diə̯/

Etymology 1

From Old High German dir.

Pronoun

dir

  1. second-person singular, dative: you; thee
    Ech hunn dir e Bréif geschéckt.
    I have sent you a letter.

Etymology 2

From Old High German ir. The d- is through unetymological segmentation of the ending -t of a preceding verb (*stitt ir*stiddirstitt dir). This development was assisted by a parallelism with the 1st person, in which the dative singular mir is also the nominative plural (this latter development occurred for a similar reason, but was earlier and is widespread throughout High German).

Pronoun

  1. second-person plural, nominative: you; you all; ye
    Hutt dir gutt geschlof?
    Have you slept well?
Derived terms
  • Dir (singular and plural polite form)

Declension


Old Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin dīcō.

Verb

dir

  1. to say
Descendants

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin dūrus.

Adjective

dir m (feminine singular dira, masculine plural dirs, feminine plural diras)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun) hard
Alternative forms
  • (Surmiran) deir
  • (Puter, Vallader) dür

Etymology 2

From Latin dīcō, dīcere, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (to show, point out).

Verb

dir

  1. to say
Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) dir
  • (Sutsilvan) gir
  • (Surmiran) deir

Etymology 3

Noun

dir m (plural dirs)

  1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) liver
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Somali

Verb

dir

  1. send

Tolai

Pronoun

dir

  1. Third-person dual pronoun: they two, them two

Declension



Venetian

Etymology

From Latin dīcere (compare Italian dire), present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dir

  1. (transitive) to say, tell
  2. (transitive) to affirm

Conjugation

  • Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Welsh

Noun

dir

  1. soft mutation of tir (land)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tir dir nhir thir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.