signer

From sign +‎ -er.

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

signer (plural signers)

1. One who signs something.

   Synonym: signatory

   John Hancock is a famous signer of the Declaration of Independence.

2. One who uses sign language.

• robo-signer

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, re-sign, reigns, renigs, resign, resing, ringes, singer

From a modification, based on signe, of Old French seignier, itself from Latin signāre.

• IPA^(key): /si.ɲe/

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signer

1. (transitive) to sign (put a signature on)
2. to sign (communicate using sign language)
3. (reflexive, Christianity) to cross oneself (make the sign of the cross)

• signer son arrêt de mort

• signe

• → Dutch: signeren
• → Khmer: ស៊ីញេ (siiɲeɛ)

• “signer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• singer

signer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of signō

signer

1. imperative of signere

First known attestation circa 1230.^[1] Borrowed (in this form) from Latin signō, signāre. Cf. the inherited form seignier.

signer

1. to sign (put one's signature or one's seal on a document, etc.)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ign, *-igns, *-ignt are modified to ing, inz, int. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• → English: sign
• French: signer

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (signer, supplement)
• signer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub