signet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French signet (“small seal”), from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum (“sign”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
signet (plural signets)
- (historical) 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, [Act V, scene ii]:
- I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, / Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale:
- 1844, Robert Browning, The Labratory:
- To carry pure death in an earring, a casket,
A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
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Translations[edit]
object used to impress a picture into sealing wax
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- seal (emblem) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
signet m (plural signets)
- bookmark (strip used to mark a place in a book)
- Synonym: marque-page
- (historical) signet
- Synonym: chevalière
Descendants[edit]
- → German: Signet
Further reading[edit]
- “signet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
signet
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
signet n (plural signete)
Declension[edit]
Declension of signet
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) signet | signetul | (niște) signete | signetele |
genitive/dative | (unui) signet | signetului | (unor) signete | signetelor |
vocative | signetule | signetelor |
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