ire

• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

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

ire

1. (obsolete) Iron.
   • Chaucer

     the cruel ire, red as any gleed

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').

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

• fury
• rage
• wrath

• irascibility
• irascible
• irate
• ireful

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

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

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

• -ier, EIR, Eri., eir, rei, rie

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

• IPA^(key): /iˈrə/, [iˈɾɛ]

ire

1. to come

• iregva (“to make come”)
• iredan (“manner of coming”)

From Latin īra.

• IPA^(key): /iʁ/
• Rhymes: -iʁ

ire f (plural ires)

1. (archaic, literary or poetic) ire, anger

   Synonym: colère

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

• rie

ire f

1. plural of ira

From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō.

ire

1. (obsolete, regional, literary) to go

• Highly defective. Mostly obsolete (with the exceptions of ire, ito and ite, still used in regional contexts).

• andare, gire

• eri, rei, riè

īre

1. present active infinitive of eō

• ire in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

ire

1. Alternative form of hire

ire

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

ire

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

From Old English ēare.

ire

1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

ire

1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Old French ire < Latin īra.

ire f (plural ires)

1. ire; rage; fury

• French: ire

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

1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

• irlender
• irlending

• Republikken Irland, Irland
• irsk

• “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

1. person from Ireland, Irishman.

• irlendar
• irlending

• Republikken Irland, Irland
• irsk

• “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Latin īra.

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

1. ire, anger, rage

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

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ire)
• ire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• ira
• iro
• iru

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

ire

1. Alternative form of ira

ire

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