sire

See also: Sire, şire, and šíře

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of senior, seigneur, seignior, and sir.

Pronunciation

• 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.

Noun

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     And raise his issue, like a loving sire.

4. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shelley

     [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

Translations

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

Verb

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.

Translations

to procreate

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

• Hungarian: nemz (hu)
• Polish: spłodzić (pl)
• Russian: породить (ru) (poroditʹ)

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Etymology

From German zieren.

Verb

sire

1. (archaic) adorn
2. (archaic, by extension, especially in the passive participle) endow with a favorable quality

Derived terms

• vansire

References

• “sire” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ/
• Rhymes: -iʁ
• Homophones: cire, cirent, cires, sires

Noun

sire m (plural sires)

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

Derived terms

• triste sire

Related terms

• monsieur
• seigneur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ries

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

sire m (invariable)

1. king, monarch

   only when addressing a sovereign

Synonyms

• re, sovrano, monarca, maestà

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Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.rə/

Noun

sire m

1. nominative singular of sieur

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑀺𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• सिरे (Devanagari script)
• সিরে (Bengali script)
• සිරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• သိရေ (Burmese script)
• สิเร (Thai script)
• ᩈᩥᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ສິເຣ (Lao script)
• សិរេ (Khmer script)

Noun

sire

1. locative singular of siras