gire
English
editNoun
editgire (plural gires)
References
edit- “gire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ʒiʁ/
- Homophones: girent, gires
Verb
editgire
- inflection of girer:
Italian
editAlternative forms
edit- ire (obsolete, archaic, regional)
Etymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editgìre (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.[1], 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][2], lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][3], 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 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[4], 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[5], 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][6], 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
- 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[7], 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
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of gìre (-ire; irregular; defective) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | gìre | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | èssere | gerund | gèndo | |||
present participle | — | past participle | gìto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | gìmo | gìte | gìano |
imperfect | gìvo | gìvi | gìva, gìa | givàmo | givàte | gìvano |
past historic | gìi | gìsti | gì | gìmmo | gìste | gìrono |
future | girò | girài | girà | girémo | giréte | girànno |
conditional | girèi | girésti | girèbbe, girébbe | girémmo | giréste | girèbbero, girébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperfect | gìssi | gìssi | gìsse | gìssimo | gìste | gìssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | gìte | — | ||
negative imperative | — | — | — | — | — |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- 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
editMiddle English
editAdjective
editgire
- Alternative form of gery
Pali
editAlternative forms
editAlternative scripts
Noun
editgire
Portuguese
editVerb
editgire
- inflection of girar:
Spanish
editVerb
editgire
- inflection of girar:
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