cire

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cire (countable and uncountable, plural cires)

1. A fabric with a glazed finish.

• ERIC, Eric, RICE, Rice, eric, icer, rice

Inherited from Middle French cire, from Old French cire, chiere, ciere, from Latin cēra.

• IPA^(key): /siʁ/

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• Homophones: cirent, cires, sire, sires

cire f (plural cires)

1. wax
2. beeswax
   • 1647, René Descartes, translated by Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, Méditations métaphysiques [Meditations on First Philosophy]:

     Prenons par exemple ce morceau de cire: il vient tout fraîchement d’être tiré de la ruche, il n’a pas encore perdu la douceur du miel qu’il contenoit, il retient encore quelque chose de l’odeur des fleurs dont il a été recueilli […]

     Let us take as an example this piece of beeswax. It has just been taken from the honeycomb, all fresh; it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey that it held; it yet retains something of the scent of the flowers from which it was gathered

3. earwax
4. sealing wax
5. (wax) taper (wax candle)
6. cere

cire

1. inflection of cirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• crie, crié
• Éric

cīre

1. inflection of ciō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative