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

• 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, especially unintentionally.
   • 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

• Eris, ires, reis, rise, Seri, SIer

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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

External linksEdit

• “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