direyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[dire 词源字典]
dire: see dinosaur
[dire etymology, dire origin, 英语词源]
dire (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1560s, from Latin dirus "fearful, awful, boding ill," which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Oscan and Umbrian and perhaps cognate with Greek deinos, from PIE root *dwei-.