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語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sɛˈnjɜ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /sɛˈnjɝ/

名詞

seigneur (複数形 seigneurs)

1. (historical) A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
   • 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.
4. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

等位語

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

派生語

• seigneurial
• seigneury