sennor

• senner
• senor
• senhor

From Latin seniōrem, accusative of senior (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈɲoɾ/

sennor m or f

1. lord, lady
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 361 (facsimile):

     […] don afonſo de caſtela / aquel que […] ueçeu o ſenor dos mouros […]

     […] Don Alfonso of Castile, the one that […] defeated the lord of the Moors […]

   • 1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, cantiga 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)

     […] mia ſennor branca e / uermella.

     […] my lady of white skin and / reddish face.

2. (Christianity) Lord, Lady
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 128 (facsimile):

     Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un uilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa […]

     This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives […]

   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 122 (facsimile):

     […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o.

     […] you are blessed, my Lady, who bore Jesus Christ.

• Galician: señor, señora
• Portuguese: senhor, senhora

From Latin seniōrem, accusative of senior (“old”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈɲoɾ/

sennor m (plural sennores)

1. lord
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1v.

     […] del noble Rey don alfonso […] Sennor de caſtiella de Toledo de Leon de Gallizia de Seuilla de cordoua de Murcia de Jahen. ¬ del Algarbe.

     […] of the noble king don Alfonso […] lord of Castile, of Toledo, of León, of Galicia, of Seville, of Cordoba, of Murcia, of Jaén and of the Algarve.

   • Idem, 4v.

     Et precian la mucho los grandes ſénores

     And the great lords do very much admire her.

• sennora
• sennorio

• Ladino: sinyor
• Spanish: señor