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virer

/vi.ʁe/

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verb/vi.ʁe/

to bear, veer (change direction slightly); to turn into, become; to transfer (money, from one account to another); to get rid of, fire, shitcan

Virer à gauche.Bear left.

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”).