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dere
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *dar? (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?órh?-eh?, from *d?erh?- (“to leap, spring”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan ????????????????? (d?r?), Sanskrit ???? (dh??r?).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??/
- Homophones: dear, deer
Noun
dere (plural deres)
- (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.
- She did him dere.
Etymology 2
From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??/
- Homophones: dear, deer
Verb
dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
- c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].
- c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.
Derived terms
- dering
Etymology 3
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
Alternative forms
- der
Pronunciation
- (AAVE, NYC) IPA(key): /d??(?)/
- (Ulster English) IPA(key): /d???(?)/
- (Midlands) IPA(key): /d???(?)/
- (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA(key): /d?i??/
- Homophone: dare (some accents)
Adverb
dere (not comparable)
- Pronunciation spelling of there.
Interjection
dere
- Pronunciation spelling of there.
Noun
dere (uncountable)
- Pronunciation spelling of there.
Pronoun
dere
- Pronunciation spelling of there.
Anagrams
- Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?r?]
Verb
dere
- third-person singular present of drát
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?r?
Verb
dere
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *j?z, from Proto-Indo-European *y??.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de???/
- Rhymes: -e?r?
Pronoun
dere (objective case dere)
- (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)
See also
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
dere (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person singular present of derati
Slovene
Verb
dere
- third-person singular present of dreti
Turkish
Etymology
From Persian ???? (darre).
Noun
dere
- valley
Declension
References
- dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
Welsh
Alternative forms
- tyrd (North Wales)
- tyred (North Wales, literary)
Pronunciation
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?d?r?/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?de?r?/, /?d?r?/
Verb
dere
- (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod
Mutation
Zazaki
Etymology
From Persian ???? (darre).
Noun
dere ?
- valley
dere From the web:
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- what deres are there
dire
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?rus (“fearful, ominous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da???(?)/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Adjective
dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dire.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- voir dire
Anagrams
- Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride
French
Etymology
From Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?zi?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
dire
- to say, to tell
- (informal) (transitive with à) to be of interest to someone, to interest someone
- (informal) (transitive with à) to sound familiar
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- diction
- indicible
Noun
dire m (plural dires)
- saying (that which is said)
- belief, opinion
Derived terms
- aux dires de
Further reading
- “dire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ride, ridé
Italian
Alternative forms
- dicere (archaic)
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di.re/
- Hyphenation: dì?re
Verb
dìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative di' or (with written accent) dì, auxiliary avere) (transitive)
- to say, tell
- to recite
- to mean
- to think
- to admit
Conjugation
Related terms
Anagrams
- ride
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?di?.re/, [?d?i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?di.re/, [?d?i???]
Adjective
d?re
- vocative masculine singular of d?rus
References
- dire in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
Descendants
- French: dire
Occitan
Alternative forms
- díder, díser
Etymology
From Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
- to mean; to signify
Conjugation
Old French
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- (chiefly intransitive) to say
- (transitive) to recount (a story)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: dire
- French: dire
- Norman: dithe
- Walloon: dire
References
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 153
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- dir
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say
Descendants
- Occitan: dire
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere.
Verb
dire
- to say
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