English

Noun

mire ‎(plural mires)

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
   • When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire. (Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Synonyms

• (deep mud): peatland, quag

Hypernyms

• (deep mud): wetland

Hyponyms

• (deep mud): bog, fen

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mire ‎(third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

1. To weigh down.
2. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

   to mire a horse or wagon

3. To soil with mud or foul matter.
   • Shakespeare

     Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Translations

Etymology 2

Cognate to Old Norse maurr, Danish myre, Middle Dutch miere ‎(“ant”) (Dutch mier). All probably from Proto-Indo-European *morwi ‎(“ant”)

Noun

mire ‎(plural mires)

1. (obsolete) An ant.

Related terms

• pismire, antmire

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, rime

Asturian

Verb

mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

French

Etymology

From Italian mira, from mīrō ‎(“I wonder at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miʁ/

Noun

mire f ‎(plural mires)

1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
2. foresight (of rifle)
3. target (literal, figurative)
4. (television) test pattern

Verb

mire

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of mirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
5. second-person singular imperative of mirer

Anagrams

• émir, Remi, Rémi, rime, rimé

Galician

Verb

mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

Hungarian

Etymology

mi ‎(“what?”) +‎ -re

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmirɛ]
• Hyphenation: mi‧re

Pronoun

mire

1. sublative singular of mi

   Mire gondolsz?‎ ― What are you thinking about?

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪɾʲə/

Noun

mire f ‎(genitive singular mire)

1. quickness, rapidity
2. spiritedness, ardor
3. madness, frenzy, mania

Declension

Synonyms

• (madness, frenzy, mania): buile

Adjective

mire

1. genitive feminine singular of mear
2. comparative degree of mear

Mutation

Italian

Noun

mire f

1. plural of mira

Anagrams

• meri, remi, rime

Ladin

Verb

mire

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirer
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirer
4. third-person plural present subjunctive of mirer

Latin

Participle

mīre

1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

References

• mire in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mire in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Verb

mire

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mirar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of mirar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mirar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mirar

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a substratum word, or from Greek μύρον ("ointment, uncture, holy oil"), relating to the ceremony of the Orthodox wedding. Another theory suggests Latin miles ‎(“soldier”), possibly mirroring semantic evolution of the rare voină ("husband"), from Slavic vojnŭ ("warrior"). ^[1]

Possibly related to Albanian mirë ‎(“good”). Replaced mărit, which only survived in some regional dialects.

Noun

mire m ‎(plural miri)

1. bridegroom

Derived terms

• mireasă

See also

• mir
• soț

References

1. ↑ http://dexonline.ro/definitie/mire

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mire f ‎(genitive singular mire, plural mirean)

1. merriment, mirth, frolic

Derived terms

• gille-mirein

Spanish

Verb

mire

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mirar.