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Ire
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Ire
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English
Noun
ire (plural ires)
- (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)
- (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
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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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
ire f
- plural of ira
Etymology 2
From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō.
Verb
ire
- (obsolete, regional, literary) to go
Conjugation
- Highly defective conjugation. This verb's forms are mostly obsolete (with the exceptions of ire, ito and ite, still used in regional contexts).
| infinitive | ire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| non ire | — | — | ite | — | ||
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Latin
Verb
īre
- present active infinitive of eō
References
- ire in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
Middle French
Etymology
Old French ire < Latin īra.
Noun
ire f (plural ires)
Descendants
- French: ire
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)
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References
- “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)
Synonyms
Related terms
References
- “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Noun
ire f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)
Descendants
References
- (fr) 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
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Pronoun
ire
- Alternative form of ira
Declension
| 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 | ||