different between sise vs sire

English

Etymology 1

See sice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?s/
• Homophone: sice

Noun

sise (plural sises)

1. (obsolete, dice games) six

   • In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?z/
• Homophone: size

Noun

sise (plural sises)

1. (obsolete) An assize.

Anagrams

• -esis, -sies, seis, sies

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +? -se

Pronoun

sise

1. we (inclusive) do not

Adjective

sise

1. we (inclusive) are not
2. we (inclusive) were not

Related terms

French

Adjective

sise

1. feminine singular of sis

Irish

Etymology

Synchronically, sí +? -se.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????/

Pronoun

sise (conjunctive)

1. emphatic form of sí

   she, it

See also

Middle Dutch

Contraction

sise

1. Contraction of si se.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

sise

1. Alternative form of syse (“size, assize”)

Etymology 2

Noun

sise

1. Alternative form of syse (“varnish”)

Spanish

Verb

sise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sisar.

Turkish

Noun

sise

1. dative singular of sis

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