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4-letter words (3 found)

DIRE,IRED,RIDE,

3-letter words (7 found)

DEI,DIE,IDE,IRE,RED,REI,RID,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,DI,ED,ER,ID,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 17 words from dire according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dire

dire idre drie rdie irde ride dier ider deir edir iedr eidr drei rdei deri edri redi erdi ired ried ierd eird reid erid

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Definitions and meaning of dire

dire

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīrus (“fearful, ominous”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)

  1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  2. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  3. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
    Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
  4. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:dire.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • voir dire

Anagrams

  • Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • diure (Alghero)

Pronunciation

  • (Algherese) IPA(key): /ˈdiɾa/

Verb

dire

  1. (Northern, Alghero) Alternative form of dir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diʁ/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /d͡ziʁ/
  • Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

dire

  1. to say, to tell
  2. (informal) to be of interest to, to interest [+ à (someone)]
    Ça te dit de regarder un film de science-fiction? ― Do you want to watch a science fiction movie? What do you say to watching a science fiction movie?
    Ça vous dit ? ― Are you interested [in doing this]? Are you up [for it]?
    Il m’a demandé si ça nous dirait de nous joindre à eux plus tard. ― He asked me if we'd like to join them later.
    Ça ne me dit trop rien d’y aller. ― I don't really want to go [there].
  3. (informal) to sound familiar [+ à (someone)]
    Ça me dit quelque chose. ― It rings a bell.
    Ça ne me dit rien. ― It doesn't ring a bell.

Conjugation

Disez is a nonstandard form for the second person plural in the present indicative.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • diction
  • indicible

Noun

dire m (plural dires)

  1. saying (that which is said)
  2. belief, opinion

Derived terms

  • aux dires de

Descendants

  • Louisiana Creole: di

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • ride, ridé

Italian

Alternative forms

  • dicere (archaic)

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: dì‧re

Verb

dìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative dì' or (with syntactic gemination after the verb, with written accent) dì, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to utter (produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice)
  2. to recite
  3. to say, tell, utter
    1. (transitive with di) to talk about, discuss
  4. to say (indicate in a written form)
  5. used as a generic synonym for certain verbs:
    1. Synonym of soggiungere (“to add”)
    2. Synonym of continuare (“to continue”)
    3. Synonym of rispondere (“to reply”)
    4. Synonym of confessare (“to confess”)
    5. Synonym of dichiarare (“to claim”)
    6. Synonym of raccontare (“to tell, relate, report”)
    7. Synonym of affermare (“to declare, assert”)
    8. Synonym of suggerire (“to suggest, clue”)
    9. Synonym of credere (“to believe, assume”)
  6. to mean
  7. to express a concept with the proper word in a given language
  8. (uncommon) to speak
  9. (rare) to announce the wedding of
    domani vi dirò in chiesa ― Tomorrow I'll announce your wedding in church

Conjugation

Related terms

Noun

dire m (uncountable)

  1. words

Anagrams

  • Drei, Redi, idre, redi, ride

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.re/, [ˈd̪iːrɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdi.re/, [ˈd̪iːre]

Adjective

dīre

  1. vocative masculine singular of dīrus

References

  • “dire”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dire

  1. to say (express using language)

Descendants

  • French: dire

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • díder, díser

Etymology

From Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.ɾe/

Verb

dire

  1. to say (express using language)
  2. to mean; to signify

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dire

  1. (chiefly intransitive) to say
  2. (transitive) to recount (a story)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • Middle French: dire
    • French: dire
  • Norman: dithe
  • Walloon: dire

References

  • “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 153

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • dir

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin dīcere, present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dire

  1. to say

Descendants

  • Occitan: dire

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːʀ/

Verb

dire

  1. to say

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