different between spiry vs spirt

English

Etymology

spire +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spa???i/

Adjective

spiry (comparative more spiry, superlative most spiry)

1. Like or resembling a spire.
2. Abounding in spires.
   • 1870, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook (page 263)

     But the calmest region is the upland, where human life is spread out beneath the bodily eye, where the mind roves from the peasant's nest to the spiry town, from the school-house to the churchyard, [...]

3. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
   • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence

     Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.

English

Verb

spirt (third-person singular simple present spirts, present participle spirting, simple past and past participle spirted)

1. Archaic spelling of spurt.

Noun

spirt (plural spirts)

1. Archaic spelling of spurt.

References

“spirt” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

Anagrams

• Strip, TRIPS, sprit, stirp, strip, trips

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin spiritus.

Noun

spirt m (plural spirts)

1. spirit

Related terms

• spirtât
• spirtôs
• spirtuâl
• Spirtussant

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin spiritus.

Noun

spirt m (plural [please provide])

1. spirit

Related terms

• spiert

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

spirt

1. past participle of spire

Romanian

Etymology

From Russian ????? (spirt), from English spirit, from Latin sp?ritus.

Noun

spirt n (uncountable)

1. alcohol, spirit, particularly rubbing alcohol

Declension

Further reading

• spirt in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)