Where does “senjoro” come from?

senjoro (Esperanto) comes from French Seigneur, from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor, from Latin senior, from Latin senex, from Proto-Indo-European sénos — old.

senjoro (Esperanto): seigneur

Definitions

  1. seigneur

Ancestry of “senjoro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchSeigneurLord
2Middle Frenchseigneurlord; sire
3Old Frenchseignorlord; sire; master
4Latinseniorolder, elder; rather old; a lord, sir; an abbot
5Latinsenexold, aged, elderly; old person, old man, old...
6Proto-Indo-Europeansénosold
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sénosEvery word from Latin senexEvery word from Latin senior
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