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virer

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to bear, veer (change direction slightly)
  2. (intransitive) to turn into, become
  3. (transitive) to transfer (money, from one account to another)
  4. (colloquial, transitive) to get rid of, fire, shitcan

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vi.ʁe/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *virāre, probably from Latin vibrāre (in which case it is a doublet of vibrer) or possibly from an alteration of gȳrō. Compare Italian virare, Spanish virar. Or, possibly from Gaulish *viru (“to deviate, veer off”), itself derived from viros (“round, crooked”).

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