sigil

See also: siğil

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: sĭjĭl,
• enPR: sĭjəl,
• Hyphenation: sigil
• Rhymes: -ɪdʒəl

EtymologyEdit

From Latin sigillum.

NounEdit

sigil (plural sigils)

1. A seal, signature or signet.
2. A sign, image or symbol considered to be magical.
3. (programming) A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• sigillary
• sigillate
• sigillation
• sigillative

• sigillistic
• sigillography
• twigil

TranslationsEdit

seal, signature or signet

• Danish: segl n
• Dutch: zegel (nl) n
• German: Siegel (de) m
• Greek: σφραγίδα (el) f (sfragída)
• Hungarian: pecsét (hu)

• Irish: séala m
• Norwegian: segl (no) n
• Portuguese: selo (pt) m
• Spanish: sigilo (es) m

magical sign

computing: character affixed to a symbol

• Spanish: sigilo (es) m

See alsoEdit

• Hungarian notation

AnagramsEdit

• igils