spire

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The stalk or stem of a plant.
 * 2) A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
 * 3) Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
 * 4) A sharp or tapering point.
 * 5)  A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
 * The spire of the church rose high above the town.
 * 1) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
 * 2)  A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
 * 1) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
 * 2)  A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
 * 1)  A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

Derived terms

 * broached spire

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шпил
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: spir
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: suippotorni, ,
 * French:
 * German:, Turmhelm
 * Hungarian:, , toronycsúcs,
 * Icelandic: spíra, turnspíra
 * Ido:
 * Irish: spuaic, stuaic
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Marathi: मनोरा, मेरुशिखर
 * Maori: koinga, koeko
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: spir
 * Nynorsk: spir
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , coruchéu
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: chapitel,
 * Swedish: tornspira,
 * Ukrainian: шпиль
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: пик,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, , tetőcsúcs
 * Italian:
 * Maori: koinga
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian: ,

Verb

 * 1)  to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
 * 2) To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
 * 3)  To furnish with a spire.
 * 1) To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
 * 2)  To furnish with a spire.

Etymology 2
From, and its source,.

Verb

 * 1)  To breathe.

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
 * 2) A spiral.
 * 3)  The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
 * 1)  The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) turn of a spiral
 * 2) turn (of an electromagnetic coil)

Etymology
From (stem, pipe; little tree).

Noun

 * 1) sprout

Verb

 * 1) to sprout