significaunce
Middle English
Alternative forms
- signeficaunce, significance, significauns
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, a borrowing from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiaunce (the more usual Middle English term).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si(n)ɡˌnifiˈka(u̯)ns(ə)/, /si(n)ɡˈnifika(u̯)ns(ə)/
Noun
significaunce (uncountable) (rare)
- The meaning or significance of an omen.
- Synonym: signifiaunce
- An omen; a portentous event or symbol.
- Synonym: signifiaunce
- The definition or meaning of a word.
- Synonym: signifiaunce
Descendants
- English: significance
- Scots: signeeficance
References
- “significaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.