# gire
## English
### Noun

gire (plural gires)
* Obsolete form of gyre.

### References

* “gire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Geri, Iger

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒiʁ/
* Homophones: girent, gires

### Verb

gire
* inflection of girer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* ire (obsolete, archaic, regional)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin īre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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, [being a] 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 fiedeAfterwards, 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 cantandoIt 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 ferilleYet 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 pratoYou, bees, who went sucking the most beautiful flowers of Hymettus, for which the field is glad

#### Derived terms

* girsene

### 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

* egri, ergi, regi

## Middle English
### Adjective

gire
* Alternative form of gery

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀕𑀺𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* गिरे (Devanagari script)
* গিরে (Bengali script)
* ගිරෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ဂိရေ or ၷိရေ (Burmese script)
* คิเร (Thai script)
* ᨣᩥᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ຄິເຣ (Lao script)
* គិរេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄉𑄨𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

### 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