ire
UK /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/ · US /aɪ.ɚ/ noun, verb
Forms ires iring ired
- noun (obsolete) Iron.
- noun Great anger; wrath; keen resentment. “to raise the ire of someone”
- verb (transitive, rare) To anger, to irritate.
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Etymology
From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.
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”).
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [F., fr. L. ira.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ire”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details