English

Noun

Dir.

1. (law) Abbreviation of director.

Usage notes

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

English

Noun

dir ‎(plural dirs)

1. Abbreviation of direction.
2. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.

Adjective

dir ‎(not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of direct.

Anagrams

• D.R.I., rid

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin īre, present active infinitive of eō; the forms beginning with V from corresponding forms of vādō; the forms beginning with F from the corresponding forms of sum.

Verb

dir

1. to go

Conjugation

From http://ast.oslin.org/index.php?action=lemma&lemma=17232

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diʁ/

Noun

dir m

1. steel

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [di]
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /dir/

Etymology

From Old Provençal dir, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti ‎(“to show, point out”).

Verb

dir ‎(first-person singular present dic, past participle dit)

1. to say

Conjugation

References

• Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). ISBN 84-412-2477-3.

German

Alternative forms

• Dir

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /diːɐ̯/

• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /dɐ/

Pronoun

dir

1. (personal) dative of du; you, to you.
2. (reflexive) dative; yourself, to yourself.

Italian

Verb

dir

1. apocopic form of dire

Lojban

Rafsi

dir

1. rafsi of dicra.

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• der (unstressed)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diə̯/

Etymology 1

From Old High German dir.

Pronoun

dir

1. second-person singular, dative: you; thee

   Ech hunn dir e Bréif geschéckt.

   I have sent you a letter.

Etymology 2

From Old High German ir. The d- is through unetymological segmentation of the ending -t of a preceding verb (*stitt ir → *stiddir → stitt dir). This development was assisted by a parallelism with the 1st person, in which the dative singular mir is also the nominative plural (this latter development occurred for a similar reason, but was earlier and is widespread throughout High German).

Pronoun

1. second-person plural, nominative: you; you all; ye

   Hutt dir gutt geschlof?

   Have you slept well?

Derived terms

• Dir (singular and plural polite form)

Declension

Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• dire

Etymology

From Latin dīcō.

Verb

dir

1. to say

Descendants

• Catalan: dir
• Occitan: dire, dir

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin dūrus.

Adjective

dir m (feminine singular dira, masculine plural dirs, feminine plural diras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun) hard

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) deir
• (Puter, Vallader) dür

Etymology 2

From Latin dīcō, dīcere, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- ‎(“to show, point out”).

Verb

dir

1. to say

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) dir
• (Sutsilvan) gir
• (Surmiran) deir

Etymology 3

Noun

dir m (plural dirs)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) liver

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) deir

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) gnirom
• (Surmiran) nirom
• (Puter) gniram
• (Puter) fio

Somali

Verb

dir

1. send

Tolai

Pronoun

dir

1. Third-person dual pronoun: they two, them two

Declension

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin dīcere (compare Italian dire), present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dir

1. (transitive) to say, tell
2. (transitive) to affirm

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Welsh

Noun

dir

1. soft mutation of tir ‎(“land”)

Mutation