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• seignior

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɛˈnjɜ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /sɛˈnjɝ/
• 韻: -ɜ(ɹ)

名詞

seigneur (plural seigneurs)

1. (history) A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 269:

     "Then you're not - " "Darling," I said, "do you really see me in the position of a seigneur, driving my serfs and villeins before me with a whip - even if the triffids haven't overrun me first?"

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:

     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 seigneur)
• dame (female feudal ruler of Sark)

派生語

関連する語

• droit de seigneur
• grand seigneur