señor

• senor

Borrowed from Spanish señor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, signore, sir, and sire.

• IPA^(key): /seɪnˈjɔɹ/, /seɪnˈjoʊɹ/, /sinˈjɔɹ/, /sɛnˈjɔɹ/

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señor (plural señores)

1. A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man.

• Ensor, Ernos, Neros, Norse, Roens, Rones, Rosen, neros, noser, oners, renos, rosen, seron, snore

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese senhor, from Latin senior. Compare Portuguese senhor.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɲoɾ/

señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras)

1. elder, senior
2. sir, mister
3. lord, master, liege
4. (capitalized, Catholicism) the Lord / God

• Sr.

señor f (plural señores)

1. (archaic) lady, milady

• “señor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “señor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “señor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “señor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “señor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Señor (used before a name)
• seor
• seó
• شَانُرْ (aljamiado)

Inherited from Old Spanish sennor (“lord”), from Vulgar Latin *senjor (“master, elder, lord, nobleman”), from Latin seniōrem (“elder”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senior, borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɲoɾ/ [seˈɲoɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: se‧ñor

señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras)

1. mister, sir, lord (title conferred on a married or older male)

   Synonyms: Sr., Sr

2. gentleman

   Synonym: caballero

3. master

   Synonym: amo

señor (feminine señora, masculine plural señores, feminine plural señoras)

1. (before a noun) great big; whopping

   dar un señor golpe

   Give a good big whack

2. free

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• “señor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• renos, rones

señór (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ᜔ᜌᜓᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of senyor