sire

See also: Sire, şire, and šíře

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /saɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

As King of England, William III would be addressed as Your Majesty or sire.

Darley Arabian, one of the foundation sires of the thoroughbred breed of horse.

NounEdit

sire (plural sires)

1. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
2. A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
3. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
   • Shakespeare

     And raise his issue, like a loving sire.

4. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
   • Shelley

     [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

TranslationsEdit

lord, master, or person in authority

• Dutch: sire (nl)
• Esperanto: sinjoro (eo)
• Finnish: herra (fi)
• Italian: sire (it) m
• Japanese: 主 (ja) (あるじ, aruji), 陛下 (ja) (へいか, heika)

• Korean: 폐하 (ko) (pyeha)
• Romanian: domn (ro) m
• Russian: госуда́рь (ru) m (gosudárʹ)
• Spanish: amo (es) m, dueño (es) m, señor (es) m, seor m, ser (es) m

male animal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 父畜, 父兽

• Dutch: dekhengst (nl)
• Finnish: koiras (fi)
• Italian: stallone (it) m, riproduttore m, maschio (it) m

• Japanese: 雄 (ja) (おす, osu) オス (osu)
• Malay: induk jantan
• Russian: производи́тель (ru) m (proizvodítelʹ)
• Spanish: semental apareado (es) m

VerbEdit

sire (third-person singular simple present sires, present participle siring, simple past and past participle sired)

1. (transitive, of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 6:

     In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

TranslationsEdit

to procreate

• Dutch: verwekken (nl)
• Finnish: siittää (fi), astua (fi)
• French: saillir (fr)

• Hungarian: nemz (hu)
• Polish: spłodzić

AnagramsEdit

• EIRs, Eris, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, reis, rise

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French sire (nominative form), from Vulgar Latin *seior (used as a term of address), a contracted form of Latin senior (compare French seigneur, derived from the accusative form), perhaps influenced by maior. Doublet of senior.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /siʁ/

NounEdit

sire m (plural sires)

1. (obsolete) sire (term of respect)
2. (obsolete) lord

Related termsEdit

• monsieur
• seigneur

AnagramsEdit

• ries

Further readingEdit

• “sire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Old French sire. See also sere. Doublet of signore.

NounEdit

sire m (invariable)

1. king, monarch

   only when addressing a sovereign

SynonymsEdit

• re, sovrano, monarca, maestà

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Old FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /si.rə/

NounEdit

sire m

1. nominative singular of sieur