impire

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpaɪə(ɹ)/

Noun

impire (plural impires)

1. Obsolete form of empire.

Irish

Alternative forms

• impireoir

Etymology

From Old Irish impere, impire, from Latin imperium.

Noun

impire m (genitive singular impire, nominative plural impirí)

1. emperor

Declension

Declension of impire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative impire impirí vocative a impire a impirí genitive impire impirí dative impire impirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-impire na himpirí genitive an impire na n-impirí dative leis an impire don impire leis na himpirí

Derived terms

• banimpire m (“empress”)
• impireacht f (“empire”)
• impiriúil (“imperial”, adjective)

Related terms

• impiriúlachas m (“imperialism”)
• impiriúlaí m (“imperialist”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
impire	n-impire	himpire	t-impire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “impire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “impere, impire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

impire m (genitive singular impire, plural impirean)

1. Alternative form of ìmpire

Mutation

Mutation of impire

Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
impire	n-impire	h-impire	t-impire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.piːʀ/

Noun

impire m (plural impires)

1. empire