significantia

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siɡ.ni.fiˈkan.ti.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siɲ.ɲi.fiˈkan.t͡si.a/,

Etymology 1

From significāns +‎ -ia.

Noun

significantia f (genitive significantiae); first declension

meaning, signification
force, vigour (of speech)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	significantia	significantiae
Genitive	significantiae	significantiārum
Dative	significantiae	significantiīs
Accusative	significantiam	significantiās
Ablative	significantiā	significantiīs
Vocative	significantia	significantiae

Descendants

→ Old French: senefiance, cenefiance, segnefiance, segnefience, senefianche, senifiance, signifiance, signifianche (influenced by signe) (semi-learned)
- Middle French: signifiance, senefiance (rare) (influenced by signe)
  - French: signifiance (now literary or technical)
- Gallo: sènefiance
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: sanefionce
- → Middle English: signifiaunce, signefiance, signifiance, signifiauns, signifyaunce, signyfiaunce, sygnyfyaunce, syngnefiaunce, syngnefyaunce
  - English: signifiance (obsolete)
  - Middle Scots: signifiance
→ Old French: significance
- Middle French: significance
  - French: significance
- → Middle English: significaunce, signeficaunce, significance, significauns
  - English: significance
  - Scots: signeeficance
→ Italian: significanza
→ Portuguese: significância
→ Romanian: semnificanță (calque)
→ Spanish: significancia

Etymology 2

Participle

significantia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of significāns

References

“significantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
significantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
significantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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