sygnatura

See also: sygnaturą

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish sygnatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siɡnaˈtura/
• Syllabification: syg‧na‧tu‧ra

Noun

sygnatura f

1. signature (any identifying sign or inscription)

Further reading

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “sygnatura”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “sygnatura”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French signature. First attested in 1647.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɨɡ.naˈtu.ra/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /sɨɡ.naˈtu.ra/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: syg‧na‧tu‧ra

Noun

sygnatura f (diminutive sygnaturka)

1. (library science) signature mark (catalog number placed on a book belonging to the book collection of a given library or reading room)
2. (bureaucracy) signature mark (identifying mark or sign of document, file, or item)
3. (art) signature (person's name written on that person's work to mark is as their creation)
4. (Internet) signature (text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details)
5. (figurative) signature (any identifying sign or inscription)
6. (printing) signature (group of three (or a multiple of three) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book)
7. (archaic, medicine) signature (copy of the medical prescription attached to the medicine by the pharmacy)
8. (obsolete, printing) nick (notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution)
9. (obsolete) custos (older forms of book, an indication, at the end of a page, of the first word or term of the next page)

   Synonym: kustosz

10. (obsolete, architecture) flèche (small tower for a church bell)
11. (obsolete) signature (act of placing an identifying mark on goods or post)

Declension

Declension of sygnatura

	singular	plural
nominative	sygnatura	sygnatury
genitive	sygnatury	sygnatur
dative	sygnaturze	sygnaturom
accusative	sygnaturę	sygnatury
instrumental	sygnaturą	sygnaturami
locative	sygnaturze	sygnaturach
vocative	sygnaturo	sygnatury

Descendants

• → Kashubian: sygnatura

Further reading

• sygnatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sygnatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sygnatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[4]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sygnatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 534
• sygnatura in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego