significantia
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Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /siɡ.ni.fiˈkan.ti.a/, [s̠ɪŋnɪfɪˈkän̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siɲ.ɲi.fiˈkan.t͡si.a/, [siɲːifiˈkänt̪͡s̪iä]
Etymology 1
[edit]From significāns + -ia.
Noun
[edit]significantia f (genitive significantiae); first declension
- meaning, signification
- force, vigour (of speech)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | significantia | significantiae |
| Genitive | significantiae | significantiārum |
| Dative | significantiae | significantiīs |
| Accusative | significantiam | significantiās |
| Ablative | significantiā | significantiīs |
| Vocative | significantia | significantiae |
Descendants
[edit]- → Old French: senefiance, cenefiance, segnefiance, segnefience, senefianche, senifiance, signifiance, signifianche (influenced by signe) (semi-learned)
- Middle French: signifiance, senefiance (rare) (influenced by signe)
- French: signifiance (now literary or technical)
- Gallo: sènefiance
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: sanefionce
- → Middle English: signifiaunce, signefiance, signifiance, signifiauns, signifyaunce, signyfiaunce, sygnyfyaunce, syngnefiaunce, syngnefyaunce
- English: signifiance (obsolete)
- Middle Scots: signifiance
- Middle French: signifiance, senefiance (rare) (influenced by signe)
- → Old French: significance
- Middle French: significance
- French: significance
- → Middle English: significaunce, signeficaunce, significance, significauns
- English: significance
- Scots: signeeficance
- Middle French: significance
- → Italian: significanza
- → Portuguese: significância
- → Romanian: semnificanță (calque)
- → Spanish: significancia
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]significantia
References
[edit]- “significantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- significantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- significantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.