signa

Learned borrowing from Latin signa, nominative plural of signum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡnə/

signa

1. plural of signum

• Agins, Gains, Nagis, Siang, gains, ginas, ingas

signa

1. inflection of signar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkna/
• Rhymes: -ɪkna

From Old Norse signa.

signa (third person singular past indicative signaði, third person plural past indicative signaðu, supine signað)

1. to drop, sink, collapse, stagger, slump

   signa niður

   drop (down)

2. to be unsafe or shaky

   Hann kendi, hvussu tað signaði undir fótinum.

   He felt that the ground was unsafe/shaky.

3. to be bogged down

   Bilurin signaði niður.

   The car was bogged down.

From Old Norse signa, from Latin signō.

signa (third person singular past indicative signaði, third person plural past indicative signaðu, supine signað)

1. to bless

   signa seg

   to cross oneself

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signa

1. third-person singular past historic of signer

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkna/
• Rhymes: -ɪkna

signa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative signdi, supine signt)

1. used in set phrases

• signa sig (“to cross oneself, to make the sign of the cross”)

• kross

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɡ.na/, [ˈs̠ɪŋnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɲ.ɲa/, [ˈsiɲːä]

signā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of signō

signa n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of signum (“sign, emblem”)

signa

1. indefinite plural of signum

signa

1. past tense of signe
2. past participle of signe

• signe (e- and split infinitives)

From Old Norse signa, from Latin sīgnō. Doublet of signere.

signa (present tense signar, past tense signa, past participle signa, passive infinitive signast, present participle signande, imperative signa/sign)

1. (transitive) to bless
2. (transitive, Christianity) to make the sign of the cross upon

• “signa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gnisa, snagi

Probably from siginn, past participle of the verb síga.

id=sink

signa

1. (intransitive) to sink, slide down

• Faroese: signa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: segne, segna (a-infinitive)

Ultimately from Latin sīgnō.^[1]

id=bless

signa

1. (transitive) to bless
2. (transitive, Christianity) to sign with the sign of the cross
3. (transitive, Germanic paganism) to dedicate to a god
   • Grágás, ch. 7

     Menn skulu trúa á einn guð ok á helga menn hans ok blóta eigi heiðnar vættir. Þá blótar hann heiðnar vættir ef hann signir fé sitt ǫðrum en guði, eða helgum mǫnnum hans. Ef maðr blótar heiðnar vættir, ok varðar þat fjǫrbaugsgarð.

     Men shall believe in one god and his holy men, and not worship heathen wights. One worships heathen wights if he dedicates his cattle to anyone other than god or his holy men. If a man worships heathen wights, that warrants lesser outlawry (fjǫrbaugsgarðr).

   • Hákonar saga góða in Heimskringla

     En er it fyrsta full var skenkt, þá mælti Sigurðr jarl fyrir ok signaði Óðni ok drakk af horninu til konungs.

     And when the first toast was poured, then Earl Siward made a speech and dedicated it to Óðinn, and drank from the horn for the sake of the king.

• Faroese: signa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: signa, signe (e- and split infinitives)
• Norwegian Bokmål: signe

• “signa (1)”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “signa (2)”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

signa

1. inflection of signar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

signa (present signar, preterite signade, supine signat, imperative signa)

1. (dated) Synonym of välsigna (“bless”)
2. (colloquial) Synonym of signera (put a signature on (to indicate approval, or more generally))

   Synonym: sajna

3. (colloquial) to sign (finalize a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label, or the like)

   Synonyms: sajna, skriva på

   Hon signades av ett belgiskt skivbolag

   She was signed by a Belgian record company

• signa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• signa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• signa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)