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sire
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)
- 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 that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
- (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 6:
Translations
Anagrams
- EIRs, Eris, Iser, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, reis, rise
Danish
Etymology
From German zieren.
Verb
sire
- (archaic) adorn
- (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)
- (obsolete) sire (term of respect)
- (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)
- 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)
- Used preceding the name or title of a knight, noble, or cleric.
- A respectful term of address for a noble or gentleman.
- A noble or lord; one of high station.
- A husband as the head of a household.
- 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
- nominative singular of sieur
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
sire
- locative singular of siras
Romanian
Etymology
From French sire.
Noun
sire m (uncountable)
- sire
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
sire (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of siriti
Slovene
Noun
sire
- accusative plural of sir
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begetter
English
Etymology
beget +? -er
Noun
begetter (plural begetters)
- A procreator; one who begets.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Dublin, p. 17,[1]
- Our fond Begetters, who would never die,
- Love but themselves in their posteritie.
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, “The Pedigree” in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, London: Macmillan, p. 63,[2]
- It was a mirror now,
- And in it a long perspective I could trace
- Of my begetters, dwindling backward each past each
- All with the family look,
- Whose names had since been inked down in their place
- On the recorder’s book,
- Generation and generation of my mien, and build, and brow.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Dublin, p. 17,[1]
- (figuratively) An originator; a creator.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares Sonnets, London: Thomas Thorpe, Dedication,[3]
- To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets Mr. W. H. all happinesse and that eternitie promised by our ever-living poet wisheth the well-wishing adventurer in setting forth.
- 1911, Saki, “Tobermory” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, 1912, p. 30,[4]
- He was neither a wit nor a croquet champion, a hypnotic force nor a begetter of amateur theatricals.
- 1980, Doris Lessing, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, London: Jonathan Cape, p. 3,[5]
- Rumours are the begetters of gossip. Even more are they the begetters of song.
- 2015, Ayaz Amir, “So what else should Christians do?” The News International, 17 March, 2015,[6]
- As the sponsor and begetter of extremism, it was only the army which could take on religious extremism along the north-western marches and the ‘secular’ brand of terrorism down south in Karachi.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares Sonnets, London: Thomas Thorpe, Dedication,[3]
Translations
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