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語源 1

From 中期英語 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 and uncountable, plural mires)

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
   • 1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 12:

     Sow ran and squall'd,
     While Jack he bawl'd,
     And Jill join'd in the choir,
     Dog Ball being near,
     Bit sow by the ear,
     And threw Jack into the mire.

   • 1872, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New, page 350:

     His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!

2. A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.

   Synonyms: peatland, quag

   Hypernym: wetland

   Hyponyms: bog, fen

   • 2015 November 15, Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein, Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia, Springer, →ISBN, page 79:

     Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.

3. An undesirable situation; a predicament.
   • 2017 April 2, Dafydd Pritchard, “Swansea City 0-0 Middlesbrough”, in BBC Sport‎, 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 (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

   to mire a horse or wagon

2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
3. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

   Synonym: bemire

   • 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’?

派生語

• unmired

語源 2

From 中期英語 mire, myre, from 古期英語 *mīere, from Proto-West Germanic *miurijā, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”), from Proto-Indo-European *morwís (“ant”).

名詞

mire (plural 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

名詞

mīre f

1. alternative spelling of mīere

語形変化

Weak n-stem:

別の表記

• myer, myre, myrre
• mure, muir, muire, muyre (especially Southwest Midland)

発音

• IPA: /ˈmiːr(ə)/
• (West Midland) IPA: /ˈmyːr(ə)/

名詞

mire (plural mires)

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

派生語

• myren

派生した語

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

参照

• “mīre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 August 2018.

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 *mȳre, *mīere, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ.

別の表記

• myre

発音

• IPA: /ˈmiːr(ə)/

名詞

mire

1. ant

派生語

• pissemyre

派生した語

• English: mire (“ant”) (obsolete)

参照

• “mīre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 July 2018.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmiː.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.re]

副詞

mīrē (not comparable)

1. wondrously, marvelously, amazingly
2. strangely, peculiarly, uncommonly, exceedingly
   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 8.1.2:

     mire quam illius loci non modo usus sed etiam cogitatio delectat.

     It is a wonder how, not only the use of that place, but also the very thought of it delights me.

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmiː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.re]

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