sigil

See also: siğil

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sigillum (“little sign”). Doublet of seal and sigillum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭjĭl, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪd͡ʒɪl/
• enPR: sĭjəl, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪd͡ʒəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sigil
• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪl, -ɪdʒəl

Noun

Examples (programming)
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sigil (plural sigils)

1. A seal, signature or signet.
2. An occult or magical sign, image or symbol.
3. (programming) A nonalphanumeric symbol affixed to a term (such as a variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• sigillary
• sigillate
• sigillation
• sigillative
• sigillistic
• sigillography
• twigil

Translations

seal, signature or signet

• Bulgarian: печат (bg) m (pečat)
• Danish: segl (da) n
• Dutch: zegel (nl) n
• French: sceau (fr) m
• German: Siegel (de) m
• Greek: σφραγίδα (el) f (sfragída)
• Hungarian: pecsét (hu)
• Irish: séala m
• Norwegian: segl (no) n
• Polish: sigil (pl) m
• Portuguese: selo (pt) m
• Spanish: sigilo (es) m

magical sign

• Bulgarian: магически знак m (magičeski znak)
• German: Sigill n, Sigillum n
• Polish: sigil (pl) m

computing: character affixed to a symbol

• Spanish: sigilo (es) m

See also

• Hungarian notation

Anagrams

• igils

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sigillum. Doublet of segell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈʒil]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [siˈd͡ʒil]

Noun

sigil m (plural sigils)

1. secrecy

Related terms

• sigil·lós

Further reading

• “sigil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Noun

sigil n (plural sigilii)

1. Alternative form of sigiliu

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sigil	sigilul		sigilii	sigiliile
genitive-dative	sigil	sigilului		sigilii	sigiliilor
vocative	sigilule			sigiliilor