sigil
English
/ˈsɪdʒɪl/, /ˈsɪdʒəl/
noun
Definitions
- A seal, signature or signet.
- An occult or magical sign, image or symbol.
- (programming) A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sigillum (seal, little sign, small image, sealed document).
Origin
Latin
sigillum
Gloss
seal, little sign, small image, sealed document
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hypersigil English
- sigilless English
- sigillography English
- sigillum English
- *segellum Latin
- *sūgillum Latin
- sigillum Latin
- signum Latin
- sigillo Italian
- sigillographie French
- sello Spanish, Castilian
- sigilo Spanish, Castilian
- segl Norwegian Bokmål
- sigilo Portuguese
- segl Norwegian Nynorsk
- segell Catalan, Valencian
- sigil Catalan, Valencian
- sigiliu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sijil Indonesian
- sijil Malay
- 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 Gothic
- *sigil Old Dutch
- seello Old Portuguese
- segel Middle Low German
- segel, seg(g)el Middle Low German
- sagèl Occitan
- sellu Asturian
- σιγίλλον, σιγίλλιον gkm