单词 | belsire |
释义 | belsiren. rare and archaic after 17th cent. A grandfather. Also: a forefather, an ancestor.In quot. 1631 translating Latin proavus great-grandfather. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] elder-fathereOE fatherOE elder971 alderOE eldfatherOE forme-fadera1200 ancestorc1300 grandsirec1300 aiela1325 belsirea1325 predecessora1325 forefather1377 morea1382 progenitorc1384 antecessorc1400 forn-fatherc1460 forebear1488 ancient1540 antecestrec1550 fore-grandsirec1550 grandfather1575 ascendant1604 forerunnera1616 ancienter1654 tupuna1845 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandfather mother-fathereOE eldfatherOE grandsirec1300 aiela1325 belsirea1325 grandfather1424 belfatherc1440 goodsire?c1450 fore-grandsire1513 gutcher1523 granfer1564 granddaddy1648 grandpapa1680 grandada1699 grandad1764 grandpa?1785 grandpappy1857 grandpop1860 abuelo1876 dada1888 gramp1890 grampy1904 lolo1934 gramps1935 zayde1946 opa1948 opi1988 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 18 Ant that to writ of mort de auncestre, ant of cosinage, of ael, bel sire ant of entre, ant writ of neueute, habben þe terme suþþe þe coronement of þe sulue king Henri, ant noȝt bifore. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ix. l. 142 Here abouȝt[e] þe barne þe belsyres [a1450 Cambr. Dd.1.17 belsire] gultes. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 27 Bellsyre, auus. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxvii. f. cxlviiiv The sone here lyeth with also the fader The belsyre, for & ye great graundfader. 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xii. sig. Mmiij Antique names of noble Belsiers old. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 233 When he his long Descent shall from his Bel-sires bring. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 615 The great Belsire, the Grandsire, Sire, and Sonne Lie here interred vnder this Grauestone. 1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul v. 156 She descended was of royal line; Being, through one belsire, sib to noble Oberon. a1974 G. Heyer My Lord John (1975) i. 28 They must not speak until spoken to;..not forgetting to bow to their grandfather, and not forgetting to call him Bel sire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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