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the OG way to say 'your dad, but make it royal'
means a formal, old-fashioned way to address a king or to name a male parent (human or, often today, animal breeding stock)
from Comes from Old French 'sire,' itself worn down from Latin 'senior' — meaning 'older' or 'elder.' The same Latin root gave us 'senior' and 'señor,' so 'sire' is really just a very old, very formal way of saying 'the elder one' — which is how it slid from 'respected older man' to 'my lord/king' to 'father' to, eventually, 'the horse that sired this foal.'
- verb form
- also means to father offspring, animal or royal
- horse breeding
- still the standard term for a stallion parent
- etymology
- from old french sieur, cousin of senior