different between mire vs shroud

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ma??/, /?ma??/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzij?, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meus?, whence Old English m?os, and Proto-Germanic *mus?, whence Old English mos (English moss).

Noun

mire (countable and uncountable, plural mires)

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
   • When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire. (Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)

   Synonyms: peatland, quag

   Hypernym: wetland

   Hyponyms: bog, fen

2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

1. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

   Synonyms: bemire, enmire

2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.
4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1,^[2]

     Why had I not with charitable hand

     Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,

     Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,

     I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;

     This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?

   Synonym: bemire

Derived terms

• unmired

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mire, from Old English *m?re, *m?ere, from Proto-Germanic *miurij?. Cognate to Old Norse maurr, Danish myre, Middle Dutch miere (“ant”) (Dutch mier). All probably from Proto-Indo-European *morwi- (“ant”), whence also cognate to Latin form?ca.

Noun

mire (plural mires)

1. (obsolete) An ant.

Related terms

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, emir, meri, reim, riem, rime

Asturian

Verb

mire

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

Esperanto

Etymology

From miri +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mire/
• Hyphenation: mi?re
• Rhymes: -ire

Adverb

mire

1. in surprise, in awe, in an amazed way

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?/

Etymology 1

From Italian mira, from Latin m?r? (“I wonder at”).

Noun

mire f (plural mires)

1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
2. foresight (of rifle)
3. target (literal, figurative)
4. (television) test pattern
5. (surveying) rod (measuring tool)

Derived terms

• ligne de mire
• point de mire

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mire

1. inflection of mirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émir, Remi, Rémi, rime, rimé

Galician

Verb

mire

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

Hungarian

Etymology

mi (“what?”) +? -re (sublative case suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mir?]
• Hyphenation: mi?re
• Rhymes: -r?

Pronoun

mire

1. sublative singular of mi

Pronoun

mire

1. for what (purpose)?

Adverb

mire (not comparable)

1. whereupon (after which, in consequence)

2. by the time, when

Derived terms

• amire

Further reading

• mire in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?????/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mire (“madness, frenzy, infatuation”).

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire)

1. quickness, rapidity
2. spiritedness, ardor
3. madness, frenzy, mania

   Synonym: buile

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

mire

1. inflection of mear:
   1. genitive feminine singular
   2. comparative degree

Mutation

References

• "mire" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “mire” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mire” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Noun

mire f

1. plural of mira

Anagrams

• meri, remi, rime

Ladin

Verb

mire

1. inflection of mirer:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi?.re/, [?mi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.re/, [?mi???]

Participle

m?re

1. vocative masculine singular of m?rus

References

• mire in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mire in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse mýrr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miuzij?.

Alternative forms

• myre, myer, muire, myrre, muyre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?r/
• (SW England) IPA^(key): /my?r/

Noun

mire (plural mires)

2. Marshy or swampy land; a mire or peat.
3. A region of marshy or swampy land.
4. A muddy or dirt-covered region.
5. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
6. (rare) A quagmire or conundrum.
7. (rare) A puddle or pond; a watery hollow.

Derived terms

• myren

Descendants

• English: mire (“swamp”)
• Scots: mire

References

• “m?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-20.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English *m?re, *m?ere, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miurij?.

Alternative forms

• myre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?r(?)/

Noun

mire

2. ant

Derived terms

• pissemyre

Descendants

• English: mire (“ant”) (obsolete)

References

• “m?re, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Portuguese

Verb

mire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of mirar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mirar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mirar

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a substratum word, or from Greek ????? (mýron, “ointment, uncture, holy oil”), relating to the ceremony of the Orthodox wedding. Another theory suggests Latin m?les (“soldier”), possibly mirroring semantic evolution of the rare voin? (“husband”), from Slavic ????? (voin?, “warrior”). Other less likely etymologies proposed include Turkish amir (“chief”), Cuman mir ("prince"), a Vulgar Latin *milex, from Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax, “adolescent; boy”), or an old Indo-European term.

Possibly related to Albanian mirë (“good”). Replaced m?rit, which only survived in some regional dialects.

Noun

mire m (plural miri, feminine equivalent mireas?)

1. bridegroom

Derived terms

• mireas?

See also

• mir
• so?

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mire (“madness, frenzy, infatuation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?i???/

Noun

mire f (genitive singular mire, plural mirean)

1. merriment, mirth, frolic

Derived terms

• gille-mirein

Mutation

References

• “mire” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mire (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of miriti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?e/, [?mi.?e]

Verb

mire

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mirar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English shroud, from Old English s?r?d, from Proto-Germanic *skr?d?. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

     swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2

     Yet let us go? England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
   • 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns

     The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

   • 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine

     a vault, or shroud, as under a church

5. (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Synonyms

• sindon

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrud?re), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

3. To take shelter or harbour.

Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of shred.

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).

   Synonym: shrood

References

• Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• shroud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shroud at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Alternative forms

• shroude, shroute, sheroude, shrude, shrute
• scrude, sroude, srout, srud, sruð, ssroud (early)

Etymology

From Old English s?r?d.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru?d/

Noun

shroud (plural shroudes)

1. garment, priestly vestment

Descendants

• English: shroud
• Yola: shrude

References

• “shr?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.