different between sire vs prototype

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 French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +? -type.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?t??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?t??ta?p/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pro?to?type

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Synonyms

• (basis for other forms or objects): see Thesaurus:exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• antetype
• first article

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

Translations

References

Further reading

• prototype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?totypus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?.tip/

Noun

prototype m (plural prototypes)

1. prototype

Derived terms

• prototypique

Further reading

• “prototype” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototyper, definite plural prototypene)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototypar, definite plural prototypane)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.