Meaning of ira | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ire, anger, wrath
   declension-1
2. Equivalent to 'Anger': A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or...

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Examples

“Diēs īrae.”

Day of wrath

“Tantaene animīs caelestibus īrae? [Is there] not such [terrible] wrath in celestial spirits? Can there [be] such rage in heavenly hearts? Did the heaven-dwellers [harbor] so much anger? [Is there] resentment so [awful] in the spirits above? How could the gods [retain] such wrath? (Does vengeful anger, a base human emotion, also impassion divine beings? The enclitic particle “-ne” [tantae-ne] marks the Latin phrase as a question, and ellipsis – the omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from context – intensifies varied translations.)”

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