Surely, many people thought about how to spell "Signor" or "Senior", or maybe "Senior"? And in general, what is this word and where did it come from? About how "senior" is written, about the origin of the word and its meaning will be described in the article.
Dictionary word
Before you learn how to spell this word, you need to find out its meaning. To do this, turn to the explanatory dictionary, which states that the "senior" is a feudal lord in medieval Western Europe, who owned a large number of lands. In this regard, peasants, and often townspeople, were dependent on him.
Also, "seigneur" is a large feudal lord, depending on which there were feudal lords who had less power (vassals). The latter carried a number of duties before the master, the main of which was military service. However, it should be noted that the vassals had certain advantages, especially the protection and patronage of the main feudal lord.
Origin and use
This term comes from the Latin word "senior", which translates as "senior". After that, it immediately becomes clear why the supreme feudal lord was called "seigneur", this immediately spoke of his high status.
Having understood the meaning of the term, it is necessary to find out how it is nevertheless written, through the letter "e" or "and". That is, how is it, "Signor" or "Senior"? In fact, you can write both. The thing is that in the first case it is an appeal to a man in Spain, Mexico or any other Hispanic country, and in the second case it is an appeal to an Italian.
There is also such an appeal to a woman as “señora” (“señorina”) - this is the wife or daughter of the feudal lord in Spain, Portugal or in one of the colonies of these states. Signora (Signorita) is a similar treatment, but only in Italy. The difference in the suffixes of words indicates whether a woman is married or not. It should be noted that at present such a treatment also exists, despite the fact that the feudal lords have long been gone.
Title
Continuing to consider the question of who this senor should be, we should talk more about this title. Most often, such was a man who belonged to the nobility. However, the title could also be given to legal entities, mainly these were representatives of church organizations, for example, abbeys, or chapters of the canons. Also, military orders or representatives of cathedrals could receive it.
It should be noted that the lord carried out his activities mainly through representatives. The most senior of them were the balls. The high feudal lord possessed several seignoria, which were part of the royal domain. It should be said that the title could be recognized for those landowners who did not possess such, however, this became possible only in the New History. Such lords were also called "master."
Senoria
In the Middle Ages in Western Europe the territorial entity was so called, within which all management functions, both legal and economic, were assigned to the lord.
This is a set of land tenure, within the boundaries of which the seigneur had the right to collect duties and receive other payments. For the nobility of the Middle Ages, it became the highest priority way of highlighting its significance and power. Thanks to which they were able to fully ensure their political and economic superiority.
In turn, the exclusive rights of the seigneur were limited to certain rules, which helped to strengthen the king’s power, which was especially pronounced at the end of the Medieval era, as well as during the New History period. The number of seigneuries was quite large, for example, in France in the 18th century there were about 50 thousand.