gire

gire (plural gires)

1. Obsolete form of gyre.

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

• Geri, Iger

• IPA^(key): /ʒiʁ/
• Homophones: girent, gires

gire

1. inflection of girer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ire (obsolete, archaic, regional)

Inherited from Latin īre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: gì‧re

gìre (no first-person singular present, first-person singular past historic gìi, past participle gìto, no subjunctive, no second-person singular imperative, auxiliary èssere)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) to go

   Synonym: andare

   • 13^th 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?

   • mid 1300s–mid 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]‎, 2^nd 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

   • 17^th 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

• girsene

• 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.

• egri, ergi, regi

gire

1. Alternative form of gery

gire

1. vocative singular of girā (“word”)

gire

1. inflection of girar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

gire

1. inflection of girar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative