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spire
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sp?r, sp???r, IPA(key): /spa??/, /?spa??/
- (General American) enPR: sp?r, sp???r, IPA(key): /spa??/, /?spa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English sp?r, from Proto-Germanic *sp?r?, *sp?r? (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
Noun
spire (plural spires)
- (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. [from 10th c.]
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear. [from 14th c.]
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12
- Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A sharp or tapering point. [from 16th c.]
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]
- The spire of the church rose high above the town.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [from 17th c.]
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Translations
Verb
spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)
- (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
- It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To furnish with a spire.
Etymology 2
From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin sp?r? (“to breathe”).
Verb
spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe. [14th-16th c.]
Etymology 3
From Middle French spire.
Noun
spire (plural spires)
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. [from 16th c.]
- A spiral. [from 17th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Anagrams
- Peris, Piers, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, prise, resip, ripes, spier
French
Etymology
From Latin spira, from Ancient Greek ?????? (speîra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spi?/
Noun
spire f (plural spires)
- turn (of a spiral)
Further reading
- “spire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- péris, pires, pries, priés, prise, ripes, ripés
Italian
Noun
spira f
- plural of spira
Anagrams
- persi, presi, serpi, speri
Middle English
Noun
spire
- Alternative form of spere (“sphere”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse spíra (stem, pipe; little tree)
Noun
spire f or m (definite singular spira or spiren, indefinite plural spirer, definite plural spirene)
- sprout
Verb
spire (present tense spirer, past tense spirte, past participle spirt)
- to sprout
References
- “spire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Venetian
Noun
spire
- plural of spira
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spirea
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
New Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????? (speíra, “coil”).
Noun
spirea (plural spireas)
- Any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers
- The Astilbe.
Anagrams
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, paries, praise
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