gire

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See also: Gire, giré, and girę

English

Noun

gire (plural gires)

  1. Obsolete form of gyre.

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Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

gire

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

Italian

Alternative forms

  • ire (obsolete, archaic, regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin īre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: gì‧re

Verb

gìre (no first-person singular present, first-person singular past historic gìi, past participle gìto, no subjunctive, no second-person singular imperative, auxiliary èssere)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) to go
    Synonym: andare
    • 13th c., Guittone d'Arezzo, A Finfo e a' compagni. - Lettera XX., published 1745, page 52, collected in Lettere di fra' Guittone d'Arezzo:
      E com'è mal cortese, [] chi saggio uomo , che studia notte , e giorno , faccendo suo camino gendo a Inferno?
      And how ignoble is he who, wise man, studies night and day, making his way going to Hell?
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Appresso mosse a man sinistra il piede:
      lasciammo il muro e gimmo inver’ lo mezzo
      per un sentier ch’a una valle fiede
      Afterwards, the foot moved to the left. We left the wall and went towards the center, through a path which ends in a valley
    • 1336, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Libro quarto, Capitolo 43 [Fourth book, Chapter 43]”, in Filocolo, Milan, published 1998:
      pareami ch’egli fosse tanto allegro in se medesimo, quanto alcuna cosa mai esser potesse, e gisse cantando
      It seemed to me that he was, within himself, as happy as anything could ever be, and he went singing
    • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, section XXV, lines 7–8:
      e la ingegnosa pecchia al primo albore
      giva predando ora uno or altro fiore.
      And the ingenious bee went preying upon blossom after blossom in the first light of dawn.
    • 1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto terzo [Third canto]”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered]‎, Erasmo Viotti, page 57:
      Pur non tutto in vano; e ne' confini
      Del bianco collo il bel capo ferille
      Yet it didn't all go in vain, and he wounded her beautiful head around the white neck
    • 17th c., Francesco De Lemene, “Per le conclusioni amorose esposte dal Tasso con la dottrina platonica, e spiegate in Sonetti dal sig. Ipolito Neri - Sonetto”, in Raccolta di poesie - Parte seconda, published 1699, page 140:
      Api, voi, che d'Imetto i più bei fiori
      Succiando giste, onde ridente è il prato
      You, bees, who went sucking the most beautiful flowers of Hymettus, for which the field is glad

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Further reading

  • gire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Accademia della Crusca (1729–1738) “gire”, in Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca (in Italian), 4 edition – on www.lessicografia.it
  • Väänänen, Veikko. 1981. Introduction au latin vulgaire. Paris: Kincksieck.

Anagrams

Middle English

Adjective

gire

  1. Alternative form of gery

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gire

  1. vocative singular of girā (word)

Portuguese

Verb

gire

  1. inflection of girar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

gire

  1. inflection of girar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative