signet

From Old French signet (“small seal”), from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum (“sign”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡ.nɪt/
• Homophone: cygnet

signet (plural signets)

1. an object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I had my father's signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal

   • 1844, Robert Browning, The Labratory:

     To carry pure death in an earring, a casket,
     A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!

• seal

• Wikipedia article on Seal (device)

• get-ins, ingest, stinge, tinges

• IPA^(key): /si.ɲɛ/

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signet m (plural signets)

1. bookmark (strip used to mark a place in a book)

• “signet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gisent

signet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of signō

From French signet.

signet n (plural signete)

1. bookmark