# senhor
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/

### Etymology 1

From Portuguese senhor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.

#### Noun

senhor (plural senhors or senhores)
* A Portuguese gentleman.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

senhor (plural senhors or senhores)
* Obsolete spelling of señor.
** 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 176:“Senhor,” said the Spaniard, “spare me; if your life was no dearer to you than mine, it would not be worth thanks.”

### Anagrams

* Honers, herons, honers, hornes, horsen, nosher, rhones

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* senner
* senor
* sennor

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin seniōrem, from senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seˈɲoɾ/

### Noun

senhor m or f by sense
* lord, lady
** 13th century, João de Lobeira, (Please provide the book title or journal name): Das que vejo nom desejo outra senhor se vós nom; e desejo tam sobejo mataria um leon, senhor do meu coraçom! Leonoreta, fin roseta, bela sobre toda fror, fin roseta, nom me meta em tal coita voss'amor!Out of the ones I see I do not wish another lady if not thee; and a such wish so abundant would kill a lion, lady of my heart! Leonoreta, fine little rose, more beautiful than every flower, fine little rose, do not lead me to such sorrow thy love!
** 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 361 (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 […]
** 1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, cantiga 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)
    […] mia ſennor branca e / uermella. […] my lady of white skin and / reddish face.
* (Christianity) Lord, Lady
** 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 128 (facsimile):
    Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un uilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa […]
       This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives […]
** 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 122 (facsimile):
    […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o.
       […] you are blessed, my Lady, who bore Jesus Christ.

#### Descendants

* Galician: señor, señora
* Portuguese: senhor, senhora (see there for further descendants)

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "senhor$_1$"
* Universo Cantigas - "senhor$_2$"

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* segnor

### Etymology

From Latin senior, seniōrem.

### Noun

senhor m (oblique plural senhors, nominative singular senher, nominative plural senhor)
* lord (a nobleman in medieval society)

#### Descendants

* Occitan: sénher, senhor, signour

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “senior”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 448

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Sr., Sr (abbreviation)
* senhôr (obsolete)
* sinhô (Caipira eye-dialect)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese senhor m or f, from Latin seniōrem (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). Doublet of sénior. Compare Galician and Spanish señor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /sẽˈɲoʁ/ [sẽˈj̃oh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /sẽˈɲoʁ/ [sẽˈj̃oh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /sẽˈɲoɾ/ [sẽˈj̃oɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /sẽˈɲoʁ/ [sẽˈj̃oχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /seˈɲoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɨˈɲoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɨˈɲoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /sɨˈɲo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Hyphenation: se‧nhor

### Noun

senhor m (plural senhores, feminine senhora, feminine plural senhoras)
* mister (title conferred to an adult male)
    Dei o livro ao senhor João.I gave the book to mister John.
* sir (address to any male)
    Não irei, senhor.I won’t go, sir.
* (military) sir (address to a military superior)
    Sim, senhor!Yes sir!
* an old man
    Synonyms: idoso, velho
    O cinema estava cheio de senhores.The film theatre was full of old men.
* an unspecified male
    Synonyms: (slang, Brazil) cara, (slang, Portugal) gajo
    Um senhor está a sua procura.Some guy is looking for you.
* (historical) feudal lord
    O senhor ordenou a construção de uma fossa.The lord ordered the construction of a moat.
* master (owner of a slave)
    Synonyms: amo, dono
    Escravos devem obedecer seus senhores.Slaves must obey their masters.
* (honorific) Sir (title given to a knight)
    Synonym: sir

#### Derived terms

* assenhorear, assenhorar
* o senhor
* Senhor

#### Related terms

* senhoragem
* senhorial
* senhoriato
* senhoril
* senhorilmente
* senhorio
* senhorismo
* senhorzinho
* senil
* sénior

#### Descendants

* Angolar: thun
* Guinea-Bissau Creole: sinhor, nhor
* Indo-Portuguese: sinhor
* Kabuverdianu: nho, nhu, sinhor
* Kristang: sinyor
    Indonesian: sinyo
* Macanese: nhom, nhum, sium
* Principense: sun
* Sãotomense: sun, Chinhô
* Tetum: señór
* → English: senhor
* → Malay: senyur
    Indonesian: senyur