# significo
## Asturian
### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [siŋ.niˈfi.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [siŋ.niˈfi.ko]

### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significar

## Galician
### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significar

## Italian
### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significare

## Latin
### Etymology

From signum (“token, sign”) +‎ -i- +‎ -ficō (“do, make”). Collateral form significor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /siɡˈni.fi.koː/, [s̠ɪŋˈnɪfɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /siɲˈɲi.fi.ko/, [siɲˈɲiːfiko]

### Verb

significō (present infinitive significāre, perfect active significāvī, supine significātum); first conjugation
* to show, express, signify, point out
** c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.1:Cum in omnibus enim rēbus, tum maximē etiam in architectūrā haec duo īnsunt: quod significātur et quod significat.Indeed, as in all subjects, then likewise most especially in architecture, there are these two matters: what is being signified and what is signifying.
* to portend, prognosticate
* to call, name
* to mean, import

#### Derived terms

* significābilis
* significāns
* significanter
* significantia
* significātiō
* significātivus
* significātōrius

#### Related terms

* signifer
* signō
* signum

#### Descendants

* Old French: senechier, *senegier
** Bourguignon: senoigé, senongé
** Franc-Comtois: senadgi, senaigie, senodjie
* Franco-Provençal: senedgier (Franche-Comte, Romandy)
* → Catalan: significar
* → Old French: senefier, signefier (semi-learned)
** Middle French: senefier, signifier
*** French: signifier
** → Middle English: signifien
*** English: signify
*** Scots: signafee
** → Old Occitan: signifiar
*** Occitan: signifiar, sinhifiar
* → Italian: significare
* → Old Occitan: significar
** Occitan: significar, sinhificar
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: significar
** Galician: significar
** Portuguese: significar
* → Romanian: semnifica
* → Sicilian: significari
* → Old Spanish: significar, synificar
** Spanish: significar

### References

* “significo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “significo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* significo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to allude to a person or thing (not alludere): significare aliquem or aliquid to hint vaguely at a thing: leviter significare aliquid what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quid significat, sonat haec vox? the word carere means..: vox, nomen carendi or simply carere hoc significat (Tusc. 1. 36. 88) to have the same meaning: idem valere, significare, declarare

## Portuguese
### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siɡniˈfiko/ [siɣ̞.niˈfi.ko]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: sig‧ni‧fi‧co

### Verb

significo
* first-person singular present indicative of significar