sire
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of senior, seigneur, seignior, sir, and monsieur.
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
sire (plural sires)
- 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.
- A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
- (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- And raise his issue, like a loving sire.
- (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
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- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
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TranslationsEdit
lord, master, or person in authority
male animal
VerbEdit
sire (third-person singular simple present sires, present participle siring, simple past and past participle sired)
- (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.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 6:
TranslationsEdit
to procreate
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DanishEdit
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VerbEdit
sire
- (archaic) adorn
- (archaic, by extension, especially in the passive participle) endow with a favorable quality
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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
NounEdit
sire m (plural sires)
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Further readingEdit
- “sire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French sire. See also sere. Doublet of signore.
NounEdit
sire m (invariable)
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Old FrenchEdit
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NounEdit
sire m
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Alternative forms
NounEdit
sire
Serbo-CroatianEdit
VerbEdit
sire (Cyrillic spelling сире)
SloveneEdit
NounEdit
sire
- accusative plural of sir