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Ire

//aɪ.ɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Ireland (Republic of Ireland). abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of Irish English. abbreviation, alt-of

    "Quite a number of EE urban and rural dialects, educated English speech, IrE, and ScotE cannot be ruled out."

  3. 3
    Initialism of Institute of Radio Engineers. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Iron. obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] 'Tell I'm rud as the smith makes the pieces of ire; […]"

  2. 2
    Great anger; wrath; keen resentment. uncountable

    "to raise the ire of someone"

  3. 3
    belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
  4. 4
    a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To anger, to irritate. rare, transitive

    "It doesn't tire a man to put down a carpet so much as it ires him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“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 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit इष् f (iṣ, “refreshment, strength”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“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 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit इष् f (iṣ, “refreshment, strength”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”).

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