Ira

Recently, I came across the English word ire¹ in a book. This word is a poetic and rhetorical expression meaning “anger”, often used with the verb draw or raise.

English ire comes from the Latin īra that means “anger”, which has several descendants in English. Probably the most common is irritate meaning “to make someone angry”.

The adjective irate² is a bit harsh word meaning “extremely angry”.

In Latin, -sc- functioning as an inceptive³ infix forms the verb īrāscor meaning “to be angry”, whence the English irascible⁴ (meaning “easily provoked to anger”) is derived.