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signo

1. first-person singular present indicative of signar

Common Romance, from Latin signum.

• IPA(key): /ˈsiɡno/
• Rhymes: -iɡno
• Syllabification: sig‧no

signo (accusative singular signon, plural signoj, accusative plural signojn)

1. sign, signal
2. character, mark

• demandosigno (“question mark”)
• ironisigno (“irony mark”)
• kaj-signo (“ampersand”)
• kridemandosigno (“interrobang”)
• krisigno (“exclamation mark”)
• antaŭsigno (“portent, omen, indication”)
• “signo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “signo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Esperanto signo, English sign, French signe, Italian segno, Spanish signo.

• IPA(key): /ˈsiɡ.no/

signo (plural signi)

1. sign (natural or artificial), mark (indication)

• krucosigno (“the sign of the cross”)
• signizar (“to sign, put a sign on”)

signo (plural signos)

1. sign

Proto-Indo-European *sek-

Proto-Indo-European *-nóm

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

Proto-Italic *seknāō

Latin signō

Inherited from Proto-Italic *seknāō, from *seknom + *-āō. By surface analysis, signum (“mark”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɪŋ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsiɲ.ɲo]

signō (present infinitive signāre, perfect active signāvī, supine signātum); first conjugation

1. to mark, sign
2. to seal, stamp
3. to statue
4. (figuratively) to point out, to indicate, to express, to designate

• assignō

• cōnsignō

• dēsignō

• insignō

• obsignō

• resignō

• signāculum

• subsignō

• Asturian: aseñar, señar

• Catalan: senyar

• Friulian: segnâ

• Galician: asinar

• Italian: segnare

• Occitan: senhar

• Romanian: semna

• Sicilian: signari, sincari, sinnari

• Spanish: señar

• → Albanian: shënoj

• → Asturian: asinar (semi-learned)

• → Catalan: signar

• → Old French: signer

  • → French: signer
    * → German: signieren
  • → English: sign

• → Proto-Germanic: *segnōną (see there for further descendants)

• → Spanish: signar

signō n

1. dative/ablative singular of signum (“sign”)

• “signo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “signo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “signo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to seal, fasten a letter: epistulam signare, obsignare
  • (ambiguous) statues and pictures: signa et tabulae (pictae)
  • (ambiguous) to begin the march, break up the camp: signa ferre, tollere
  • (ambiguous) to deviate, change the direction: signa convertere (B. G. 1. 25)
  • (ambiguous) to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)
  • (ambiguous) to pluck up the standards out of the ground (to begin the march): signa convellere (vid. sect. XVI. 6, note signa...)
  • (ambiguous) to attack the enemy: signa inferre in hostem
  • (ambiguous) to come to close quarters: signa conferre cum hoste
  • (ambiguous) the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
• signo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin signum. Doublet of sino, senho, senha, and sinal.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɡi.nu/, /ˈsiɡ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɡi.nu/, /ˈsiɡ.nu/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsiɡ.no/, /ˈsi.ɡi.no/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɡnu/ [ˈsi.ɣnu]

• Hyphenation: sig‧no

signo m (plural signos)

1. zodiac sign

• “signo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “signo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “signo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• IPA(key): /ˈsiɡno/ [ˈsiɣ̞.no]
• Rhymes: -iɡno
• Syllabification: sig‧no

Borrowed from Latin signum. Compare sino, seña and señal.

signo m (plural signos)

1. sign, indication
2. clipping of signo zodiacal (“zodiac sign”)

• lengua de signos
• signo de exclamación
• signo de interrogación
• signo del zodíaco
• signo igual
• signo negativo
• signo positivo
• signo zodiacal
• signos vitales

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

signo

1. first-person singular present indicative of signar

• “signo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish signo. Doublet of signos.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsiɡno/ [ˈsiɡ.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -iɡno
• Syllabification: sig‧no

signo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜄ᜔ᜈᜓ)

1. sign; emblem; symbol
   Synonyms: sagisag, tanda, simbolo

• signo ng sodyako

• senyas

• “signo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018