fire
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [faɪ̯ə]
- (triphthong smoothing) IPA(key): [ˈfaə], [ˈfaː], [ˈfɑə], [ˈfɑəː]
- (General American) enPR: fīʹər, fīr, IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚ/, [ˈfaɪ̯ɚ], /ˈfaɪɹ/
Audio (General American): (file)
- (Southern US, Appalachia) IPA(key): [ˈfäːɚ]
- (Inland Northern American, Western New England, Ontario, Philadelphia) IPA(key): [fʌɪ̯ɚ]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [ˈfɑe̯ə]
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.
See also Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)
- (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
- During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.
- 2020 January 1, Bernard Lagan, “Thousands flee to beaches as the flames close in”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 24:
- Efforts to fight the fires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as large fires converged and created their own violent weather systems. The fire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.
- (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
- The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
- (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
- (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
- (countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A firearm.
- 2023 June 23, “Special K” (track 7), in BLP Kosher (lyrics), Bars Mitzva[1], 2:01:
- I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
- (countable, figurative) A barrage, volley
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 136:
- In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf [...] is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.
- (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC:
- He had fire in his temper.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- You call it hope—that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire: […]
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
- And bless their critic with a poet's fire.
- 1991 December 15, Michael Halberstadt, “Queer Proposals?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 5:
- Attendance of QN meetings has been dwindling, and the creative fire drained from the organization by the dead hand of wannabe bureaucrats bend [sic] on thought control. The action has long since been elsewhere.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Stars, hide your fires.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- a burnt child dreads the fire
- add fuel to fire
- add fuel to the fire
- all-fire
- back fire
- balefire
- ball of fire
- baptism by fire
- baptism of fire
- bin fire
- black imported fire ant
- blue fire
- bone fire
- bone-fire
- bonfire
- breathe fire
- brush fire, brush-fire, brushfire
- build a fire under
- bump-fire
- bump fire
- bushfire
- bush fire
- call the fire department
- campfire
- camp fire
- catch fire
- catch on fire
- ceasefire
- cease fire
- cease-fire
- central fire
- chimney fire
- chimpanzee fire
- Chinese fire drill
- climate fire
- co-fire
- cold fire
- contagious fire
- covering fire
- crown fire
- death-fire
- Devil's Broom fire
- die in a fire
- direct fire
- draw fire
- dropping fire
- drumfire
- dry fire
- dry-fire
- dumpster fire
- electric fire
- Elmo's fire
- escape fire
- exchange of fire
- false fire
- fan the fire
- feed the fire
- fen fire
- field of fire
- fiery
- fight fire with fire
- fire air
- fire alarm
- fire alarm horn
- fire and brimstone
- fire and forget
- fire ant
- fire appliance
- firearm
- fire arm
- fire arrow
- fire away
- fire ax
- fire axe
- fireball
- fire balloon
- fire basket
- fire-bath
- fire bay
- fire beater
- fire beetle
- fire bell
- fire-bellied
- fire-bellied newt
- fire bellied toad
- fire-bellied toad
- fire blanket
- fire blanks
- fireblast
- fire blast
- fire blight
- fire block
- fire-board
- fire board
- fireboat
- firebolt
- firebomb
- fire boss
- fire-bote
- firebox
- fire box
- firebrand
- firebreak
- fire break
- fire-breather, firebreather
- fire breathing, fire-breathing, firebreathing
- firebrick
- fire brick
- fire brigade
- fire bucket
- fire-bucket
- firebug
- fire button
- fire cabinet
- fire-capped tit
- fire cart
- fire chicken
- fire chief
- fire cider
- fireclay
- fire clay
- fire cloud
- fire code
- fire company
- fire controlman
- fire coral
- firecracker
- fire-crotch
- fire crotch
- fire cupping
- firedamp
- fire damper, firedamper
- fire dancer
- fire department
- fire devil, fire-devil, firedevil
- fire diamond
- fire dog
- fire dogs
- fire door
- fire drill
- fire eater
- fire-eater
- fire eating
- fire eel
- fire engine
- fire engine red
- fire escape
- fire-escape knot
- fire exit
- fire extinguisher
- fire-eyed diucon
- fire fan
- fire-fang
- fire-fanged
- firefight
- fire-fight
- firefighter
- fire fighter
- fire fighting
- fire finder
- fire flapper
- fire-fly
- firefly
- fire fountain
- fire-fronted bishop
- fire gilding
- fire-gilding
- fire gilt
- fire grate
- fire-grate
- fire grenade
- fire guard
- fireguard
- fire hall
- fire hawk
- fire hazard
- firehole
- fire hose
- fire house
- firehouse
- fire hydrant
- fire ice
- fire in one's belly
- fire inspection
- fire in the belly
- fire in the hole
- fire iron
- fire is a good servant but a bad master
- fire lance
- fire lane
- fireless
- firelighter
- fire lily
- fireline
- fire load
- fire lookout tower
- fire machine
- fire main
- fireman
- fire marble
- fire mark
- fire marshal
- fire marshall
- fire mission
- fire moss
- firenado
- fire-new
- fire on all cylinders
- fire-on-the-mountain
- fire opal
- fire out
- fire pan
- fire people
- fire philosopher
- fire pike
- firepink
- fire piston
- firepit
- fire pit
- fireplace
- fire-place
- fire plant
- fire-plough
- fireplug
- fire point
- fire pole
- fire-power
- fire practice
- fireproof
- fire-proof
- firer
- fire raft
- fire rainbow
- fire-raiser
- fire regime
- fire-resistant
- fire-retardant
- fire retardant
- fire-retarded
- fire ring
- fire roll
- fire safety
- fire salamander
- fire-sale
- fire sale
- fire saw
- fire scar
- fire science
- fire screen
- fire service
- fireshine
- fire ship, fireship
- fire shovel hat
- fireside
- fire-side
- fire sign
- fire spear
- fire sprinkler
- fire stairs
- fire starter
- fire-starter, firestarter
- fire station
- fire step
- fire-stick
- fire-stick farming
- fire-stop
- fire stop
- firestop
- firestorm
- fire storm
- fire-storm
- fire striker
- fire swab
- fire swatter
- fire system
- fire table
- fire teaser
- fire temple
- fire tongs
- fire tower
- fire tower stairway
- fire trench
- fire triangle
- fire truck
- fire walker
- fire watch
- fire whirl, fire-whirl, firewhirl
- firewire
- firewoman
- firewood
- firework
- fire-worship
- fire worship
- fire-worshipper
- firey
- fiya
- forest fire
- fox fire
- foxfire
- fox-fire
- free-fire
- fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
- friendly fire
- garbage fire
- gas fire
- get on like a house on fire
- go through fire and water
- grassfire
- grass fire
- grazing fire
- great balls of fire
- Grecian fire
- Greek fire
- green fire
- hair-on-fire
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- heap coals on fire
- hill fire
- hold fire
- hold one's fire
- holdover fire
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- holy fire
- hot as fire
- Indian fire
- indirect fire
- insurance fire
- irons in the fire
- Kentish fire
- kill it with fire
- kindle-fire
- lake of fire
- last burst of fire
- liar liar pants on fire
- light a fire under
- light one's hair on fire
- light someone's fire
- line of fire
- Lob-lie-by-the-fire
- Lob Lie-by-the-fire
- miss fire
- need-fire
- no smoke without fire
- oblique fire
- on fire
- open fire
- ordeal of fire
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- overwintering fire
- pants on fire
- philosopher by fire
- philosopher of fire
- play with fire
- Polish fire drill
- pour fuel on the fire
- pour gasoline on the fire
- pre-fire
- Promethean fire
- pull from the fire
- pull out of the fire
- pull someone's bacon out of the fire
- pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
- pull someone's fat out of the fire
- pull the fat out of the fire
- pull the fire alarm
- put out a fire
- put out the fire
- quick-fire
- rain fire and brimstone
- rapid-fire
- rapid fire
- rapid fire pistol
- real fire
- red fire
- red imported fire ant
- rediscover fire
- return fire
- run around with one's hair on fire
- running fire
- Saint Anthony's fire
- Saint Elmo's fire
- selective fire
- set fire
- set one's hair on fire
- set on fire
- set the heather on fire
- set the Thames on fire
- set the world on fire
- shit fire
- shit fire and save matches
- shout fire in a crowded theater
- shouting fire in a crowded theater
- signal fire
- sit-by-the-fire
- spit fire
- spit-fire
- spot fire
- stand fire
- St. Anthony's fire
- St Anthony's fire
- static-fire
- static fire
- St. Elmo's fire
- St Elmo's fire
- St. Ulmo's fire
- sure-fire
- take fire
- test-fire
- the burnt child dreads the fire
- the burnt child fears the fire
- the fat hit the fire
- the fat is in the fire
- there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
- there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
- there's no smoke without fire
- throw gasoline on the fire
- throw gas on the fire
- tire fire
- tire-fire
- trash fire
- trial by fire
- Trumpster fire
- under fire
- upside-down fire
- walking fire
- water fire
- where's the fire
- wildfire
- will-fire
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
- zombie fire
- zone of fire
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fire (not comparable) (predicative only)
Alternative forms
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”).
Verb
[edit]fire (third-person singular simple present fires, present participle firing, simple past and past participle fired)
- (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “At the House in Great Portland Street”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 186:
- ["]Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." / "You fired the house!" exclaimed Kemp. / "Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail – and no doubt it was insured.["]
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- That lamp was the mummy of a woman tied to a stout stake let into the rock, and he had fired her hair.
- 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel[2], New York: The Macmillan Company:
- It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.
- (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
- They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 144”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
- (transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
- Antonym: hire
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 226:
- The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’ […].
- (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- 1979, Richard Collins Rea, Operating a Successful Accounting Practice: A Collection of Material from the Journal of Accountancy Practitioners Forum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 288:
- Don't be hesitant to fire a client - cull out the deadwood. If a client doesn't meet the above criteria, you are better off without him. You don't do your best work for a client you'd rather not have.
- 2020, Rebecca Migdal, Museum Mercenary: A Handbook for Independent Museum Professionals, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 278:
- Maintaining a collegial attitude even when doing the more difficult business work, like firing a client, is another part. If you are struggling through the relationship, the client might be struggling as well, so firing them may be mutually beneficial, and you should try and do it on the best of terms.
- (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- We will fire our guns at the enemy.
- The jet fired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
- He fired his radar gun at passing cars.
- (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
- (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- `Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.
- (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
- Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.
- (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
- When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
- (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
- He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
- (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
- The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.
- (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
- (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
- 1864, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas:
- Inexperienced girl as I was, I fired at the idea of becoming his dupe, and fancying, perhaps, that there was more in merely answering his note than it would have amounted to, I said — "That kind of thing may answer very well with button-makers, but ladies don't like it. […]
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Love had fired my mind.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- to fire the genius of a young man
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- to fire a boiler
- 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 150, 151:
- We left with the "Blue Train", dead on time. This time I fired all the way. […] The next day took me home again on No. E.16 with Henri Dutertre. I fired from Paris to Calais.
- (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
- (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
- (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
- (intransitive, dated) To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.
- I fired on that train until August.
- (slang, usually with "up") To start (an engine).
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | (to) fire | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | fire | fired | |
2nd-person singular | fire, firest† | fired, firedst† | |
3rd-person singular | fires, fireth† | fired | |
plural | fire | ||
subjunctive | fire | fired | |
imperative | fire | — | |
participles | firing | fired |
Synonyms
[edit]- (set on fire): See set on fire
- (transitive, shoot): let off, loose (archery), shoot
- (terminate the employment of): dehire, dismiss, give one's cards, give the boot, give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, let go, make redundant, sack, terminate, throw out, unhire; See also Thesaurus:lay off.
Derived terms
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Interjection
[edit]fire
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]fire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Fire in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Verb
[edit]fire
Bavarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vürhin, fürhin, equivalent to fia + hi. Compare archaic German fürhin and Alemannic German füre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fire
Usage notes
[edit]Bavarian adverbs of direction come in pairs: endings in -i or -e denote direction away from the speaker (akin to hi), and endings in -a denote direction towards the speaker (akin to her).
Related terms
[edit]Crimean Tatar
[edit]Noun
[edit]fire
Danish
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Cardinal : fire Ordinal : fjerde | ||
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]fire
Usage notes
[edit]In compounds: fir-.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Low German fīren, from French virer (“bear, veer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fire (imperative fir, infinitive at fire, present tense firer, past tense firede, perfect tense har firet)
- to lower something fixed to a rope or something similar
- 1871, Jens Andreas Friis, Lappisk Mythologi, page 138:
- Saa gik han hen og firede Stenen og Vidietouget ned i Hullet.
- Then he went [to the hole] and lowered the rock and the wicker rope down into the hole.
- 2014, Teddy Vork, Diget, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:
- Han satte sig på knæ, famlede sig frem til tovet og vendte sig rundt så han havde ryggen til hullet, drejede overkroppen bagud, firede faklen ned i hullet.
- He kneeled, fumbled his way to the rope and turned around, such that his back was to the hole, twisted his torso backwards, lowered the torch into the hole.
Conjugation
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]fire
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *fīre, from Latin fīerī (“become, be”). Compare Romanian fi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fìre (third-person only, no present, no past historic, no past participle, no imperfect, third-person singular future fìa or fìe, no subjunctive, no imperfect subjunctive)
- (northern Italy, obsolete) to be
- Synonym: essere
Conjugation
[edit]- The only forms attested outside of old Northern Italian literature are the future fia, fie (third-person singular) and fiano, fieno (third-person plural).
infinitive | fìre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | — | gerund | — | |||
present participle | — | past participle | — | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
past historic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
future | — | — | fìa, fìe | — | — | fìano, fìeno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | — | — | ||
negative imperative | — | — | — | — | — |
Further reading
[edit]- fire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
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Cardinal : fire Ordinal : fjerde | ||
Etymology 1
[edit]From Danish fire, Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]fire
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- fjerde (ordinal)
Etymology 2
[edit]From French virer, via Middle Low German firen.
Verb
[edit]fire (imperative fir, present tense firer, passive fires, simple past fira or firet or firte, past participle fira or firet or firt, present participle firende)
References
[edit]- “fire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Cardinal : fire Ordinal : fjerde | ||
Alternative forms
[edit]- fir (four, apocope, non-standard)
- fjore (four, High Norwegian)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Danish fire, Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]fire
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- fjerde (ordinal)
Etymology 2
[edit]From French virer, via Middle Low German firen.
Verb
[edit]fire
References
[edit]- “fire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]fire n
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]fire f (plural firi)
- essence, substance, nature
- Synonym: natură
- character, temper, disposition
- Synonyms: caracter, temperament
- mind
- Synonym: minte
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek Φύρα (Fýra).
Noun
[edit]fire (definite accusative fireyi, plural fireler)
- wastage
- outage
- shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease
- turnover
- ullage
- leakage
- waste, tret, deficiency
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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Nominative | fire | |
Definite accusative | fireyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | fire | fireler |
Definite accusative | fireyi | fireleri |
Dative | fireye | firelere |
Locative | firede | firelerde |
Ablative | fireden | firelerden |
Genitive | firenin | firelerin |
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