senefiance
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Middle French
[edit]Noun
[edit]senefiance f (plural senefiances)
- Rare form of signifiance.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cenefiance, segnefiance, segnefience, senefianche, senifiance
- signifiance, signifianche (influenced by signe)
Etymology
[edit]Semi-learned borrowing from Latin significantia (the inherited form would be *senechance, *senegiance, compare senechier); equivalent to senefier + -ance. Doublet of significance.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌse.nə.fiˈan.t͡sə/
- (Northern) IPA(key): /ˌse.nə.fiˈan.t͡ʃə/
- (with learned influence) IPA(key): /ˌsi.ɲi.fiˈan.t͡sə/
Noun
[edit]senefiance oblique singular, f (oblique plural senefiances, nominative singular senefiance, nominative plural senefiances)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: signifiance, senefiance (rare) (influenced by signe)
- French: signifiance (now literary or technical)
- Gallo: sènefiance
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: sanefionce
- → Middle English: signifiaunce, signefiance, signifiance, signifiauns, signifyaunce, signyfiaunce, sygnyfyaunce, syngnefiaunce, syngnefyaunce
- English: signifiance (obsolete)
- Middle Scots: signifiance
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “significare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 603
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (segnefiance)
Categories:
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Middle French rare forms
- Old French terms borrowed from Latin
- Old French semi-learned borrowings from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms suffixed with -ance
- Old French doublets
- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns