significaunce

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === signeficaunce, significance, significauns === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, a borrowing from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiaunce (the more usual Middle English term). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /si(n)ɡˌnifiˈka(u̯)ns(ə)/, /si(n)ɡˈnifika(u̯)ns(ə)/ === Noun === significaunce (uncountable) (rare) The meaning or significance of an omen. Synonym: signifiaunce An omen; a portentous event or symbol. Synonym: signifiaunce The definition or meaning of a word. Synonym: signifiaunce ==== Descendants ==== English: significance Scots: signeeficance ==== References ==== “significaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.