Signe
English
Proper noun
Signe
- an asteroid discovered by Max Wolf on October 22, 1900
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Old Norse Signý. Name of heroines in Norse mythology.
Proper noun
Signe
- a female given name.
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1925. From Swedish and Danish Signe.
Proper noun
Signe f
- a female given name.
References
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Signe was the only given name of 1562 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Norwegian
Etymology
Proper noun
Signe
- a female given name.
Swedish
Etymology
First recorded in Sweden in 1382. From Old Norse Signý. In Norse mythology the name of a princess who killed herself after her lover's death.
Proper noun
Signe c (genitive Signes)
- a female given name.
Usage notes
- Until the 19th century mainly used in Scania. Revived in the 19th century, popular around 1900 in Sweden, as well as in Denmark and Norway.
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish female given names
- Latvian terms derived from Swedish
- Latvian terms derived from Danish
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian proper nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian given names
- Latvian female given names
- Norwegian terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian female given names
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish female given names