Noun: sceau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | sceau |
| Plural m | sceaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sceau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
4. Proto-Italic *segnom
5. Latin signum
6. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
8. Proto-Italic *-elos
9. Latin -lum
10. Latin sigillum
11. Old French seel
12. Middle French sceau
13. French sceau
14. Inherited from Middle French sceau, Old French seel (whence also English seal), from Latin sigillum. The spelling with ⟨sc⟩ was introduced in Middle French (with ⟨c⟩ loosely representing the Latin ⟨g⟩) in order to distinguish the word from unrelated seau (“bucket”). See: English Nouns '
seal', Latin Nouns '
sigillum'.
Verbs referencing "sceau"
Catalan Nouns
segell, Swedish Nouns
sigill.
Translations