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The Most Illustrious (Spanish: Ilustrísimo Señor (male) or Ilustrísima Señora (female), literally "Illustrious Sir/Mister") is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in Spain and certain Spanish-speaking countries.
), from the Latin Senior (comparative of Senex, "old man"), is the Portuguese word for lord, sir or mister. Its feminine form is senhora (pronounced [sɨˈɲoɾɐ, siˈɲoɾɐ], abb. Sr. a or Sra.; plural: senhoras, abb. Sr. as or Sras.). The term is related to Spanish señor, Catalan senyor, Occitan sénher, French seigneur, and Italian signore.
El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society.
Wenceslao Moreno Centeno (April 17, 1896 – April 20, 1999), [1] known professionally as Señor Wences (Spanish pronunciation: [se'ɲoɾ 'wenθes]), was a Spanish ventriloquist and comedian. His popularity grew with his frequent television appearances on CBS 's The Ed Sullivan Show during the 1950s and 1960s. [ 2 ]
The term Don (Spanish:, literally 'Lord') [a] abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines.
It is a doublet of the English words senior, sir, sire, seignior, sieur, and monsieur and shares the same provenance as the Italian signore, Portuguese senhor, and Spanish señor, which—like mister—referred to feudal lords before becoming general words of respectful address towards men.
Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite) [a] and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.
Señor or Senor may refer to: Dan Senor (born 1971), American Canadian columnist, ... See also. Honorific § Spanish-speaking cultures; Señorita (disambiguation)