lire

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

lire (plural lires)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer.

lire (plural lires)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The cheek.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.

From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira.

lire (plural lires)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, ornithology) The Manx shearwater (bird).

From Italian lire.

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
• Homophone: lyre (some pronunciations)

lire

1. plural of lira

• Iler, Irel., Lier, Reil, Riel, lier, riel, rile

• IPA^(key): /liʁ/

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• Homophones: lires, lyre, lyrent, lyres
• Rhymes: -iʁ

Inherited from Old French lire, from Latin legere, from Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.

lire

1. (transitive, intransitive) to read
2. (reflexive, se lire) to be read

• Haitian Creole: li

Borrowed from Italian lira, compare French livre.

lire f (plural lires)

1. lira (unit of currency)

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

• lier

lire f

1. plural of lira

From Middle Low German.

lire f (definite singular lira, indefinite plural lirer, definite plural lirene)

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From Old Norse líri m, likely onomatopoetic.

lire f (definite singular lira, indefinite plural lirer, definite plural lirene)

1. shearwater

• havlire

Italian plural of lira, from Latin libra (“pound, weight”). Doublet of lira.

lire m (definite singular liren, indefinite plural lirar or lire, definite plural lirane)

2. (numismatics) lira (currency of Italy)

• “lire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin legere, present active infinitive of legō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾə/

lire

1. (transitive, intransitive) to read
2. (reflexive, se lire) to be read

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. 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.

• eslire
• relire

• French: lire

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (lire)