senhor – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of senhor

Noun: senhor
Gender: mf Hyphenation:
Singular msenhor
Singular fsenhor

Sample Sentences

  • […] mia ſennor branca e / uermella. ([…] my beautiful lady.
  • (literally, “my white-and-red lady”, referring to healthy (ruddy) Caucasian skin and alluding to female beauty)) [1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, cantiga 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)]
  • […] don afonſo de caſtela / aquel que […] ueçeu o ſenor dos mouros […] ([…] Don Alfonso of Castile, the one that […] defeated the lord of the Moors […]) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 361 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/646.gif] facsimile])]
  • Das que vejo / nom desejo / outra senhor se vós nom; / e desejo / tam sobejo / mataria um leon, / senhor do meu coraçom! (Of the ladies I have seen / My desire is keen / for none but thee; / such desire, / which I respire, / would tear a lion apart, / O lady of mine heart!) [13th century, João de Lobeira, Senhor Genta:]
  • Esta é do Córpo de Nóstro Sennor, que un vilão metera en ũa sa colmẽa por haver muito mél e muita cera; e ao catar do mél mostrou-se que éra Santa María con séu fill' en braço. (This [cantiga/song] is about the Body of Our Lord, which—because it had much honey and much wax—a peasant had put in one of his beehives; and when he gathered the honey, it revealed itself to be Holy Mary with her son in arms.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 128 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/258small.gif] facsimile])]
  • […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o. ([…] blessed thou art, my Lady, who borest Jesus Christ.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 122 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/250.gif] facsimile])]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin senior, seniōrem (“older (one)”, “elder (one)”, used as a title of respect in Medieval Latin), the comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Verbs referencing "senhor"

Galician Nouns señor, Portuguese Nouns senhor.

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