seigneur
See also: Seigneur
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire.
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Noun edit
seigneur (plural seigneurs)
- (history) A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 156:
- There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
- The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
- 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:
- Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
- (Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
- A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
Coordinate terms edit
- seigneuresse (wife of a seigneur)
- seigneuresse (a female seigneur)
- dame (female feudal ruler of Sark)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor (oblique form), from Latin seniōrem (compare sire, derived from the nominative form). Doublet of senior.
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Noun edit
seigneur m (plural seigneurs, feminine seigneuresse or seigneuse)
- lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
- lord (master)
- (Canada) seigneur (a landowner, holder of a seigneurie)
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Further reading edit
- “seigneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
From Old French seignor.
Noun edit
seigneur m (plural seigneurs)
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Old French edit
Noun edit
seigneur oblique singular, m (oblique plural seigneurs, nominative singular sire, nominative plural seigneur)
- Alternative form of seignor