MIREとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence 古期英語 mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence 古期英語 mos (English moss).

名詞

mire (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.
   • 2017 April 2, Dafydd Pritchard, “Swansea City 0-0 Middlesbrough”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], London:

     Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.

派生語

動詞

mire (三人称単数 現在形 mires, 現在分詞 miring, 過去形および過去分詞形 mired)

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

   to mire a horse or wagon

   Synonyms: bemire, enmire

2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
3. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     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

派生語

• unmired

語源 2

From Middle English mire, from 古期英語 *mȳre, *mīere, from Proto-West Germanic *miurijā, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”). 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 formīca.

名詞

mire (複数形 mires)

1. (rare or obsolete) An ant.
   • 1866, The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser Devoted, page 149:

     "Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants or mires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting. […] "

   • 1915, Daniel T. Trombley, Batiste of Isle La Motte, page 24:

     Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem aunty mire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me.

   • 1939, original c. 1300, Publications - Volume 103; Volume 105, page 267:

     The ant figures in the Bestiary, which tells us that the 'mire' is mighty; toils much in summer and in soft weather; stores wood and seed, corn and grass; in winter she is not harmed: she likes wheat, but shuns barley […]

関連する語

アナグラム

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

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.re/, [ˈmiːrɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.re/, [ˈmiːre]

Participle

mīre

1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

参照

• “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