Where does “monseigneur” come from?

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

monseigneur (French): monseigneur; Monsignor

Definitions

  1. monseigneur; Monsignor

Ancestry of “monseigneur”, step by step

monseigneur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French seigneur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchseigneurlord; seigneur
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

via Old French mon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmonmy
2Vulgar Latinmum—
3Latinmēuman umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
4Ancient Greekμῆονbaldmoney, spignel
5Ancient Greekμεῖονinflection of μείων : ## masculine accusative...

Words derived from “monseigneur”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sénos →Every word from Latin senex →Every word from Latin senior →