signe

signe (plural signes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sign.
   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 49:

     But yet it is not enough that the ſickneſle by the ſymptomes and ſignes be plainly diſcerned; […]

Borrowed from Latin signum. Doublet of the inherited seny (now obsolete in this sense) and senya (via the Latin plural signa).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsiŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsiŋ.ne]
• Homophone: cigne

signe m (plural signes)

1. sign (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “signe” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Middle French and Old French signe, a borrowing from Latin signum. Doublet of seing, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.

• IPA^(key): /siɲ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophones: cygne, cygnes, signent, signes
• Rhymes: -iɲ

signe m (plural signes)

1. sign (indicator; indication; mathematical polarity)
   • Najoua Belyzel, Gabriel

     Es-tu fait pour lui ? Es-tu fait pour moi ? Je n’attends qu’un signe de toi.

     Are you made for him? Are you made for me? I'm just waiting for a sign from you.

   en signe de reconnaissance ― as a sign of gratitude

   en signe d’affection ― as a sign of affection

2. gesture

• indice
• trace

signe

1. inflection of signer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “signe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• geins, ignés, singe

From Old French signe, borrowed from Latin signum.

signe m (plural signes)

1. sign; signal

• French: signe

• signa (a-infinitive)

From Old Norse signa, from Latin sīgnō. Doublet of signere.

signe (present tense signar, past tense signa, past participle signa, passive infinitive signast, present participle signande, imperative signe/sign)

1. (transitive) to bless
2. (transitive, Christianity) to make the sign of the cross upon

• “signe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sine

Borrowed from Latin signum. Compare the inherited seing.

signe oblique singular, m (oblique plural signes, nominative singular signes, nominative plural signe)

1. sign; signal

• Middle French: signe
  • French: signe

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (signe, supplement)
• signe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

signe

1. inflection of signar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

signe

1. (dated) subjunctive of signa

• Inges