thru its earlier form sire it came from the french word sieur which was a slurring of seigneur which came from the latin word senior meaning elder
From Sir William Thomas, Lord Kelvin, who was an English mathematician and physicist (1827 - 1907)
The word sir is a noun, a title.
It is capitalized when it is a title, meaning it comes before a name, but not as a pronoun, where it takes the place of a name. For example in Sir Elton John the Sir is capitalized, but in the sentence, "Hello sir," the sir would not be capitalized.
World pollution is a general topic. The soldier said "Sir, yes sir!" to the general.
I will not embarrass you, sir.
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Sir Joseph Banks named the banksia
sir Robert peel, was the first Bobby cop.
Sylvania is latin for woods, and Penn is for Admiral Sir William Penn.
The first word in the dictionary that starts with the letters sir is the word "sir".
The Italian word for sir is signore.
The English word sir is syr in Welsh.The Welsh word sir is county in English.
From Sir William Thomas, Lord Kelvin, who was an English mathematician and physicist (1827 - 1907)
The word sir is a noun, a title.
The Welsh word for 'knight' is marchog.
sir - mijnheer