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Signe
Signe
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 5-7966-0278-0
- Population Register of Latvia: Signe was the only given name of 1562 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
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
- 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.
signe
signe
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin signum. Doublet of seing.
Pronunciation
Noun
signe m (plural signes)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- faire signe
- langue des signes
- signe de croix
Verb
signe
- first-person singular present indicative of signer
- third-person singular present indicative of signer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of signer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of signer
- second-person singular imperative of signer
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
signe m (oblique plural signes, nominative singular signes, nominative plural signe)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (signe, supplement)
- signe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish
Verb
signe
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of signar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of signar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of signar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of signar.