different between sare vs sire

English

Alternative forms

• sear

Adjective

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, archaic) dry, withered

   Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;

   Burn ash-wood sare, 'twool make a man sware.

2. (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
3. (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe

Adverb

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sear, sera

Aromanian

Noun

sare

1. Alternative form of sari

Basque

Noun

sare

1. net

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sër?.

Noun

sa?e

1. bilberry

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Javanese

Verb

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Noun

sare

1. Dated spelling of saré.

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sar?]

Verb

sare (Lontara spelling ???, semi-transitive assare)

1. (transitive) to give

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sare

1. inflection of saras:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. inflection of sara:
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Verb

sare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sarar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sarar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sarar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sarar

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin s?l, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Noun

sare f (plural s?ruri)

1. salt

Declension

Related terms

• s?ra
• s?rat
• s?r?tur?
• s?nin?
• s?rune

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sare (n class, plural sare)

1. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group)
2. (sports) a draw (tie between two teams)

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

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 that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
3. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
4. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

Coordinate terms

• (male animal): dam

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, of a male) to father; to beget.
   • 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

Anagrams

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

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

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): /si?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ries

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

sire m (invariable)

1. king, monarch

   Synonyms: re, sovrano, monarca, maestà

   only when addressing a sovereign

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sir, sirre, syre, syr, seere, ser, sure, sore
• ?

Etymology

From Old French sire, nominative singular of seignor, from Latin senior. Doublet of senyour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?r(?)/, /?sir(?)/

Noun

sire (plural sires)

1. Used preceding the name or title of a knight, noble, or cleric.
2. A respectful term of address for a noble or gentleman.
3. A noble or lord; one of high station.
4. A husband as the head of a household.
5. A father as one's progenitor.

Descendants

• English: sir; sire
• Scots: sir; sire

References

• “s??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.r?/

Noun

sire m

1. nominative singular of sieur

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sire

1. locative singular of siras

Romanian

Etymology

From French sire.

Noun

sire m (uncountable)

1. sire

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

sire (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of siriti

Slovene

Noun

sire

1. accusative plural of sir