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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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propagate
English
Etymology
Latin propagatus
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??p???e?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??p???e?t/
Verb
propagate (third-person singular simple present propagates, present participle propagating, simple past and past participle propagated)
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production
- June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I
- A marked bud-variation is of very rare occurrence, but in many cases the tendency of plants raised from seeds to differ from the parents is so great that choice varieties are propagated entirely by buds. It is almost hopeless to attempt to propagate a choice variety of grape or strawberry by seeds, as the individuals raised in this way seldom have the valuable qualities of their parents, and, although they may have new qualities of equal or greater value, the chances are of course greatly against this, since the possibility of undesirable variation is much greater than the chance of a desirable sport.
- June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
- 1938, Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies Chapter 4
- There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.
- 1913, J. B. Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought Chapter 3
- The works of the freethinker Averroes (twelfth century) which were based on Aristotle's philosophy, propagated a small wave of rationalism in Christian countries.
- 1938, Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies Chapter 4
- (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
- 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chapter XXVIII
- As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.
- 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chapter XXVIII
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.
Derived terms
- propagation
- propagator
Translations
References
- propagate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Ido
Verb
propagate
- adverbial present passive participle of propagar
Italian
Verb
propagate
- second-person plural present indicative of propagare
- second-person plural imperative of propagare
- feminine plural of propagato
Anagrams
- prepagato
Latin
Verb
pr?p?g?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of pr?p?g?
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