señor

== English == === Alternative forms === senor === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish señor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, senyor, signore, sir, and sire. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /seɪnˈjɔɹ/, /seɪnˈjoʊɹ/, /sinˈjɔɹ/, /sɛnˈjɔɹ/ Hyphenation: se‧ñor === Noun === señor (plural señores) A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. === Anagrams === noser, renos, oners, Ernos, Rosen, Ornes, snore, seron, Ensor, Norse, neros, rosen, Roens, Neros, Rones == Galician == === Alternative forms === senhor (reintegrationist) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese senhor, from Latin senior. Compare Portuguese senhor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /seˈɲoɾ/ [s̺eˈɲoɾ] Rhymes: -oɾ Hyphenation: se‧ñor === Noun === señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras) elder, senior sir, mister lord, master, liege (capitalized, Catholicism) the Lord / God ==== Related terms ==== === Noun === señor f (plural señores) (archaic) lady, milady === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “señor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “señor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “señor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “señor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “señor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Spanish señor (“señor”). Doublet of senior, senyur, and sinyo. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɲɔr/ [ˈsɛ.ɲɔr] Rhymes: -ɛɲɔr === Noun === señor señor (a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr.) Synonym: senyur === Further reading === “señor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Spanish == === Alternative forms === Señor (used before a name) seor, seó === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /seˈɲoɾ/ [seˈɲoɾ] Rhymes: -oɾ Syllabification: se‧ñor === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old Spanish sennor (“lord”), from Vulgar Latin *senjor (“master, elder, lord, nobleman”), from Latin seniōrem (“elder”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of sénior, borrowed from Latin. ==== Noun ==== señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras) mister, sir, lord (title conferred on a married or older male) Synonyms: Sr., Sr gentleman Synonym: caballero master Synonym: amo ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From señor in the sense of mister, a title which gives importance to men and signals their social status; from there it was applied to masculine nouns in order to achieve a similar effect with them. Compare Portuguese senhor (adjective). ==== Adjective ==== señor (feminine señora, masculine plural señores, feminine plural señoras) (prepositive) great big; whopping free === Further reading === “señor”, 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 “señor”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010 “señor”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021 “señor”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019 Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “señor”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA === Anagrams === renos, rones == Tagalog == === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /senˈjoɾ/ [sɛnˈɲoɾ] IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /senˈjoɾ/ [sɛn̪ˈjoɾ] Rhymes: -oɾ Syllabification: se‧ñor === Noun === señór (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ᜔ᜌᜓᜇ᜔) alternative spelling of senyor