different between seigneur vs seigniory

English

Alternative forms

• seignior

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of senior, seignior, sire, and sir.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??nj?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??nj?/

Noun

seigneur (plural seigneurs)

1. (historical) A French feudal lord; a noble.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 156:

     There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.

2. The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
   • 2012, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 29 Oct 2012:

     Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.

3. (Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.

Coordinate terms

• seigneuresse (wife of a seigneur)
• seigneuresse (a female seingeur)

Derived terms

• seigneurial
• seigneury

French

Etymology

From Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor (oblique form), from Latin seni?rem, accusative singular of senior (compare sire, derived from the nominative form). Doublet of senior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.?œ?/, /se.?œ?/

Noun

seigneur m (plural seigneurs, feminine seigneuresse)

1. lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
2. lord (master)
3. (Canada) seigneur (a landowner, holder of a seigneurie)

Derived terms

• à tout seigneur tout honneur

Related terms

• seigneurial
• seigneurie
• sire
• monseigneur

Further reading

• “seigneur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• seringue

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French seignor.

Noun

seigneur m (plural seigneurs)

1. lord
2. sire (term of respect)

Descendants

• ? English: seigneur
• French: seigneur

Old French

Noun

seigneur m (oblique plural seigneurs, nominative singular sire, nominative plural seigneur)

1. Alternative form of seignor

English

Alternative forms

• signiory, signory

Etymology

From Middle English seignurie, from Old French seignurie, from seignor + -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?nj??i/

Noun

seigniory (countable and uncountable, plural seigniories)

1. The estate of a feudal lord.
2. The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

   • O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.

3. (law) The lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.
4. (historical) The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.

Synonyms

• fief

Related terms

• seigneur
• seignior
• seigniorage
• seignioral, seigniorial
• seignioralty
• seigniorize
• seigniorship

Anagrams

• Irigoyens