Segni

Habitational surname from Segni in Lazio, from Latin Signia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɲ.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -eɲɲi
• Hyphenation: Sé‧gni

Segni m or f by sense

1. a surname

   Antonio Segni, Italian politician and fourth President of Italy

• Segin

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛŋ.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛɲ.ɲi]

Segnī m pl (genitive Segnōrum); second declension

1. a Germanic tribe of Gallia Belgica, between the Eburones and Treviri, now Signei, near Condroy,
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.32:

     Segni Condrusique, ex gente et numero Germanorum, qui sunt inter Eburones Treverosque, legatos ad Caesarem miserunt oratum, ne se in hostium numero duceret neve omnium Germanorum, qui essent citra Rhenum, unam esse causam iudicaret: nihil se de bello cogitavisse, nulla Ambiorigi auxilia misisse.

     The Segui and Condrusi, of the nation and number of the Germans, and who are between the Eburones and the Treviri, sent embassadors to Caesar to entreat that he would not regard them in the number of his enemies, nor consider that the cause of all the Germans on this side the Rhine was one and the same; that they had formed no plans of war, and had sent no auxiliaries to Ambiorix.

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• Segni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Segni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Segni”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly