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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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spawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Verb
spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)
- (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth in general.
- The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
- (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Noun
spawn (plural spawn or spawns)
- The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
- Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
- (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
- (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Derived terms
- hellspawn
Translations
Anagrams
- WPANs, pawns
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