different between sire vs precursor

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

Alternative forms

• præcursor (chiefly obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecursor (“forerunner”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?i??k??.s??/, /p???k??.s??/

Noun

precursor (plural precursors)

1. That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.
2. (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.

Related terms

• cursor

Derived terms

• precursory

Translations

Adjective

precursor (not comparable)

1. (telecommunications, of intersymbol interference) Caused by the following symbol.

Antonyms

• postcursor

See also

• ISI

References

• precursor at OneLook Dictionary Search
• precursor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Intersymbol interference on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• procurers

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecuror, praecursorem.

Adjective

precursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursors, feminine plural precursores)

1. precursory, preceding

Noun

precursor m (plural precursors, feminine precursora)

1. precursor

Further reading

• “precursor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “precursor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “precursor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “precursor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin praecursor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre?k?rs?r/

Noun

precursor m (plural precursors, diminutive precursortje n)

1. precursor, forerunner

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecuror, praecursorem.

Noun

precursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)

1. precursor; forerunner (something that led to the development of another)

Related terms

• cursor

Adjective

precursor m (feminine singular precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras, comparable)

1. precursory (pertaining to events that will follow)

Further reading

• “precursor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French précurseur.

Noun

precursor m (plural precursori)

1. precursor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecuror, praecursorem.

Adjective

precursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras)

1. precursory, preceding

Noun

precursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)

1. precursor, forerunner

Related terms

• cursor

Further reading

• “precursor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.