cire
See also: ciré, círe, cirë, and čiré
English
Noun
cire (countable and uncountable, plural cires)
- A fabric with a glazed finish.
Anagrams
- ERIC, Eric, RICE, Rice, eric, icer, rice
French
Etymology
From Middle French cire, from Old French cire, chiere, ciere, from Latin cēra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: cirent, cires, sire, sires
Noun
cire f (plural cires)
- wax
- beeswax
- 1647, René Descartes, Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, transl., Méditations métaphysiques [Meditations on First Philosophy]:
- Prenons par exemple ce morceau de cire: il vient tout fraîchement d'être tiré de la ruche, il n'a pas encore perdu la douceur du miel qu'il contenoit, il retient encore quelque chose de l'odeur des fleurs dont il a été recueilli […]
- Let us take as an example this piece of beeswax. It has just been taken from the honeycomb, all fresh; it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey that it held; it yet retains something of the scent of the flowers from which it was gathered […]
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- earwax
- sealing wax
- (wax) taper (wax candle)
- cere
Derived terms
Derived terms
- caractère de cire
- cirage
- ciré
- cire à cacheter
- cire d'abeilles
- cire d'Espagne
- cire grasse
- cire orthodontique
- cire perdue
- cirement
- cirer
- cireur
- cireuse
- cireux
- cirier
- cirière
- fonte à cire perdue
Verb
cire
- inflection of cirer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- crie, crié
- Éric
Latin
Verb
cīre
- inflection of ciō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative