vire

From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪə(ɹ)/

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vire (third-person singular simple present vires, present participle viring, simple past and past participle vired)

1. To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
   • 1996, Derek Glover, Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education:

     For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.

   • 2005, Prison Education Report, United Kingdom: House of Commons:

     Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.

   • 2012, David Maclaren, “Changing the Civil Service”, in Managing Public Services:

     Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!

• Rive, Irve, iver, vier, Iver, rive

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪrɛ]

vire

1. vocative singular of vir

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋireˣ/, [ˈʋire̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧re

vireä (“active, animate”) +‎ -e

vire

1. form, condition (especially emotionally and/or mentally)

   Olen hyvässä vireessä. ― I'm in great form. / I'm doing great. / I'm on a roll.

2. (weaving) shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom)

   Synonym: viriö

3. (music) tune (the state or condition of being correctly tuned)

   Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä. ― Finally this piano is in tune.

4. (music) tuning (the overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency)

   Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz. ― The tuning in the sound samples is 442 Hz.

5. (in internal locative cases) being ready to act

   hana vireessä ― hammer cocked (in a firearm)

From Proto-Finnic *virek. Cognate with Estonian vire, Karelian vire and Votic vire.

vire

1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.

   Synonym: tuulenvire

• “vire”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 January 2024

• revi, rive, veri

• IPA^(key): /viʁ/
• Homophones: virent, vires

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deverbal of virer

vire f (plural vires)

1. (Switzerland) a small ledge on the side of a mountain

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vire

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

• “vire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• ivre, rive, rivé

vire

1. inflection of virar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *vireh. Akin to Finnish vire and dialectal Estonian vire.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋire/, [ˈʋire̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋire/, [ˈʋire̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: vi‧re

vire

1. rippling, trembling (of water)

Declension of vire (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	vire	virreet
genitive	virreen	virrein
partitive	virettä	virreitä
illative	virreesse	virreisse
inessive	virrees	virreis
elative	virreest	virreist
allative	virreelle	virreille
adessive	virreel	virreil
ablative	virreelt	virreilt
translative	virreeks	virreiks
essive	virreennä, virreen	virreinnä, virrein
exessive1)	virreent	virreint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 669

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪ.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.re]

virē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vireō

vire

1. an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     a vire,
     Which flieth out of a mighty bowe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “vire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• virre, vīere, vīer, fīre, firre, fīere, fīer

Inherited from Old High German fīra, borrowed from Latin fēriae.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈviːrə/, /ˈfiːrə/

vīre f

1. celebration

• German: Feier
• Hunsrik: Feier
• Luxembourgish: Feier

vire

1. inflection of virar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾe/ [ˈbi.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -iɾe
• Syllabification: vi‧re

vire

1. inflection of virar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *virek.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvire/, [ˈvʲirʲe]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: vi‧re

vire

1. light breeze
2. ripple

Declension of vire (type XIV/terve, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	vire	virred
genitive	virre	virreje, virrei
partitive	virette	virreite, virrei
illative	virrese, virre	virreise
inessive	virrez	virreiz
elative	virresse	virreisse
allative	virrele	virreile
adessive	virrelle	virreille
ablative	virrelte	virreilte
translative	virressi	virreissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “vire”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• vier

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir.

• IPA^(key): /viːr/
• IPA^(key): [ˈfəi̯ər]^[1]

vire

1. fire^[2]