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English
Noun
gire (plural gires)
- Obsolete form of gyre.
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
gire
- inflection of girer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
- 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)
- (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 gì 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
- Alternative form of gery
Pali
Noun
gire
- vocative singular of girā (“word”)
Portuguese
Verb
gire
- inflection of girar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
gire
- inflection of girar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative