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sigla
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin sigla.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɡlə/
- Hyphenation: sig‧la
Noun
sigla
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin sigla, plural of siglum (“abbreviation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sigla f (plural sigles)
- initial (first letter of a word)
- initialism
Further reading
- “sigla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “sigla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
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Faroese
Pronunciation
Verb
sigla (third person singular past indicative sigldi, third person plural past indicative siglt, supine siglt)
- to sail
Conjugation
1Only the past participle being declined.
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
sigla
- third-person singular past historic of sigler
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sigla, from Proto-Germanic *siglijaną.
Verb
sigla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sigldi, supine siglt)
- to sail
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Etymology 2
Noun
sigla f (genitive singular siglu, nominative plural siglur)
Declension
Anagrams
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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
sigla f (plural sigle)
- acronym, abbreviation, initialism
- (in the plural) initials
- monogram
- theme song, leitmotif, short melody that opens or closes a radio/television broadcast (see: avansigla)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sigla
- inflection of siglare:
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Latin
Noun
sigla
References
- “sigla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sigla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
sigla (imperative sigl, present tense sigler or siglar, simple past siglde or sigla, past participle siglt or sigla, present participle siglande)
References
- “sigla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sigla, plural of siglum (“abbreviation”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧gla
Noun
sigla f (plural siglas)
- initialism (word formed by initial letters)
- acronym (abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words)
- monogram (letter or other symbol that stands for a word or name)
Usage notes
Some make a distinction between sigla and acrónimo, where acrónimo is an acronym pronounced as if it were a single word and sigla one where each letter is pronounced individually.
Synonyms
- (monogram): monograma
Related terms
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sigla, a feminine singular reinterpreted from a neuter plural of Late Latin siglum (“abbreviation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sigla f (plural siglas)
- initial
- 2025 June 7, Jeanne Sahadi, “El DOGE acaba de recibir luz verde para acceder a tus datos del Seguro Social. ¿Qué significa?”, in CNN en Español:
- Otros tipos de información personal también pueden obtenerse o cotejarse a través de los acuerdos de intercambio de datos de la SSA con el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos.
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- acronym (of any type: phonetic acronym or initialism)
See also
Further reading
- “sigla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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