senefiance
Middle French edit
Noun edit
senefiance f (plural senefiances)
- Rare form of signifiance.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- cenefiance, segnefiance, segnefience, senefianche, senifiance
- signifiance, signifianche (influenced by signe)
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin significantia (the inherited form would be *senechance, *senegiance, compare senechier); equivalent to senefier + -ance. Doublet of significance.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˌse.nə.fiˈan.t͡sə/
- (Northern) IPA(key): /ˌse.nə.fiˈan.t͡ʃə/
- (with learned influence) IPA(key): /ˌsi.ɲi.fiˈan.t͡sə/
Noun edit
senefiance oblique singular, f (oblique plural senefiances, nominative singular senefiance, nominative plural senefiances)
Descendants edit
- Middle French: signifiance, senefiance (influenced by signe)
- French: signifiance (now literary or technical)
- Gallo: sènefiance
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: sanefionce
- → Middle English: signifiaunce, signefiance, signifiance, signifiauns, signifyaunce, signyfiaunce, sygnyfyaunce, syngnefiaunce, syngnefyaunce
- English: signifiance (obsolete)
- Middle Scots: signifiance
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “significare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 603
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (segnefiance)