different between gyre vs gyri

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?a?.?/
• (General American) enPR: j??r IPA^(key): /d?a?.?/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• Hyphenation: gy?re

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin g?rus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.

Noun

gyre (plural gyres)

1. (chiefly literary, poetic)
   1. A swirling vortex.
   2. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.

      Synonyms: circuit, whirl
2. (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
3. (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.

Derived terms

• gyral
• gyrally
• gyreful (obsolete, rare)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin g?r?re, the present active infinitive of g?r? (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from g?rus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Verb

gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred) (literary, poetic)

1. (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.

   Synonyms: revolve, rotate
2. (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.

Derived terms

• gyring (adjective, noun)
• gyringly

Translations

References

Further reading

• ocean gyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ergy, Grey, grey

Latin

Noun

g?re

1. vocative singular of g?rus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a??a?/

Noun

gyri

1. plural of gyrus

Latin

Noun

g?r?

1. nominative plural of g?rus
2. genitive singular of g?rus
3. vocative plural of g?rus

Welsh

Noun

gyri

1. Soft mutation of cyri.

Mutation