• IPA: /saɪə(ɹ)/

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; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
3. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:

     And raise his issue, like a loving sire.

4. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

   • [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

• Italian: sire
• Russian: госуда́рь
• Spanish: amo, dueño, señor, seor, ser

• Italian: stallone, riproduttore, maschio
• Russian: производи́тель
• Spanish: semental apareado

sire (sires, present participle siring; past and past participle sired)

1. (transitive, of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate.
   • 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.

• French: saillir
• Russian: породить