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tr.v. sired, sirÂ·ing, sires. 1. To be the biological father of (a child). 2. To be the male individual or gamete producing (an animal's offspring or a plant's seed) through sexual reproduction: the boar that sired the litter; pollen grains siring seeds.
Word Origin and History for sire. n. c.1200, title placed before a name and denoting knighthood, from Old French sire lord (appellation), sire, my lord, from Vulgar Latin *seior, from Latin senior older, elder (see senior (adj.)). Standing alone and meaning your majesty it is attested from early 13c.