different between sire vs antecedent

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antec?d?ns (“going before”), from antec?d? (“to precede; excel; surpass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ant??si?d?nt/

Adjective

antecedent (not comparable)

1. Earlier, either in time or in order.

   an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood

   an antecedent cause

2. Presumptive.

   an antecedent improbability

Derived terms

• antecedently

Related terms

• antecede
• antecedence

Translations

Noun

antecedent (plural antecedents)

1. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
2. An ancestor.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 3:

     The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.

3. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
   • H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

     [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal.

   • One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:
     (16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
     An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent

4. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. ${\displaystyle p\rightarrow q}$, where ${\displaystyle p}$ is the antecedent, and ${\displaystyle q}$ is the consequent.
5. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
7. (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.

Synonyms

• (something which precedes): precedent, precursor
• (an ancestor): ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor

Antonyms

• (in logic): consequent, (for sequents) succedent
• (in linguistics): anaphor

Holonyms

• conditional
• See Thesaurus:argument form

Translations

See also

• juxtaposition

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French antecédent, from Latin antec?d?ns (“go before”), from antec?dere (“to go or come before”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.t?.s??d?nt/
• Hyphenation: an?te?ce?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

antecedent n (plural antecedenten, diminutive antecedentje n)

1. antecedent (thing that precedes; prior fact, background fact)
2. (linguistics) antecedent (referent of a word, esp. of a pronoun)
3. (logic) antecedent (condition part of a proposition)

Antonyms

• (logic): (consequent)
• (linguistics): (anafoor)

Latin

Verb

antec?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of antec?d?

[[Category:ante- +?]]

Romanian

Etymology

From French antécédent, from Latin antecedens.

Adjective

antecedent m or n (feminine singular antecedent?, masculine plural anteceden?i, feminine and neuter plural antecedente)

1. antecedent

Declension