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English
Etymology
From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /ɛəɹ/, /ɛɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er.
Noun
eyre (plural eyres)
- (UK, law, historical) A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
- 1982, Public Record Office Handbooks, page 35:
- The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;
- 2000, Aileen Hopkinson, editor, The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire Eyre, Derbyshire Record Society, →ISBN, page xvi:
- None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a valuable insight into the nature and contents of the lost Derbyshire veredicta.
References
- “eyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Noun
eyre
Etymology 2
Noun
eyre
- Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔejɾe/ [ˈʔeɪ̯.ɾɛ]
- Rhymes: -ejɾe
- Syllabification: ey‧re
Noun
eyre (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔ᜇᜒ)
- Alternative form of ere
Derived terms
Further reading
- “eyre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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