señor
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seɪnˈjɔɹ/, /seɪnˈjoʊɹ/, /sinˈjɔɹ/
Noun
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.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sennor, from Latin senior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈɲoɾ/
Related terms
References
- “señor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “señor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “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.
Spanish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈɲoɾ/ [seˈɲoɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: se‧ñor
Derived terms
- de padre y muy señor mío
- dueño y señor
- señor de la guerra
- señor feudal
- señoreante
- señorear
- señoría
- señorial
- señoril
- señorío
- señorita
- señoritingo
- señoritismo
- señorito (diminutive)
- señoro
- señorón (augmentative)
Further reading
- “señor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
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