irate

English

Etymology

From Latin īrātus (“angered, angry”), from īrāscī (“to be angry”), from īra (“anger, wrath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈɹeɪt/, /ˈaɪɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Adjective

irate (comparative irater, superlative iratest)

1. Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

   Synonyms: furious, infuriated, sore; see also Thesaurus:angry

Related terms

• irascible
• irately
• irateness
• ire

 

Translations

extremely angry

• Bulgarian: яростен (bg) (jarosten), гневен (bg) (gneven)
• Catalan: irat
• Dutch: woedend (nl), ziedend (nl)
• Finnish: raivostunut (fi)
• French: furieux (fr), en colère (fr)
• Galician: irado m, colérico m, furioso m
• German: wütend (de), erzürnt (de), rasend (de)
• Hungarian: dühös (hu), feldühödött (hu), dühödt (hu), felháborodott (hu), felbőszült (hu), haragos (hu)
• Ido: iracinta (io)
• Italian: irato (it)
• Latin: īrātus
• Romanian: furios (ro) m
• Russian: разъярённый (ru) (razʺjarjónnyj)
• Slovak: rozzúrený, zúrivý (sk), zúriaci
• Spanish: encolerizado (es), airado (es), iracundo (es)

References

• “irate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “irate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “irate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Artie, Tiare, raite, retia, terai

Italian

Adjective

irate f pl

1. feminine plural of irato

Anagrams

• -itare, itera, ratei, reati, reità, tiare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iːˈraː.te/, [iːˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈra.te/, [iˈräːt̪e]

Adjective

īrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īrātus

References

• “irate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press