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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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create
English
Alternative forms
- creäte (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English createn, from Latin cre?tus, the perfect passive participle of cre?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?i??e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)
- (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:
- [...] God created man a moral agent.
- Synonym: generate
- Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish
- (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
- To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
- Synonym: invent
- Antonym: imitate
- 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:
- (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
- (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- (Britain, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
- 'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'
- 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
Conjugation
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
create (comparative more create, superlative most create)
- (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
Translations
Further reading
- create at OneLook Dictionary Search
- create in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- create in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté
Italian
Verb
create
- second-person plural indicative present of creare
- second-person plural imperative of creare
Anagrams
- cerate, recate, tacere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kre?a?.te/, [k?e?ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kre?a.te/, [k?????t??]
Verb
cre?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of cre?
Participle
cre?te
- vocative masculine singular of cre?tus
Middle English
Adjective
create
- Alternative form of creat
Verb
create
- Alternative form of creat
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- what creates fog
- what created the big bang
- what created the universe
- what creates gravity
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