sennal

Old Spanish edit

From Medieval Latin signāle, based on Latin signum (“mark, sign”).

sennal f (plural sennales)

sign, indication
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1v:
  […] connoſciendo las por peſo ⁊ por dureza ⁊ por las otras ſennales por que ſe pueden connoſçer a om̃e que fuere entendudo en este ſaber.
  […] knowing them by weight and hardness and by the other signs that may be known by a man learned in this knowledge.
(medicine) symptom
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 65r:
  Et ſi los poluos della ſobre las ſennales delas llagas ponen tuelle las.
  And if the dust is [applied] over the signs of a sore, it heals them.