irous
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French iros, from ire. See English ire.
Adjective[edit]
irous
- irascible; passionate
- 1394, Chaucer, “v. 2063”, in The Summoner's Tale[1]:
- And right anon this irous, cursed wrecche / Leet this knyghtes sone bifore hym fecche...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin *irosus, from ira (“anger, rage”) + -osus.
Adjective[edit]
irous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular irouse)