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).
A father; the head of a family; the husband.
He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire.
From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cogna...
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“Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”