señor
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish señor. Doublet of senior.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
señor (plural señores)
- A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sennor, from Latin senior.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras)
- elder, senior
- sir, mister
- lord, master
- (capitalized, Catholicism) the Lord / God
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
señor f (plural señores)
ReferencesEdit
- “señor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “señor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “señor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “señor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “señor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
SpanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish sennor (“lord”), from Vulgar Latin *senjor (“master, elder, lord, nobleman”), from Latin senior, seniōrem (“elder”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senior, borrowed from Latin.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras)
- mister, sir, lord (title conferred on a married or an older male)
- gentleman
- Synonym: caballero
- master
- Synonym: amo
Derived termsEdit
- de padre y muy señor mío
- dueño y señor
- señor de la guerra
- señoreante
- señorear
- señor feudal
- señoría
- señorial
- señoril
- señorío
- señorita
- señoritingo
- señoritismo
- señorito (diminutive)
- señorón (augmentative)
AdjectiveEdit
señor (feminine singular señora, plural señores)
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “señor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.