sigourney
/sɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)ni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from French.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
name
A female given name transferred from the surname.
name
A small city, the county seat of Keokuk County, Iowa, United States.
Example Sentences
- "“Please come and see me. . . . Phone book. . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard. . . . My aunt. . . .” [In the novel, "Mrs. Sigourney Howard" means "the wife of Mr. Sigourney Howard".]"
- "The actress Sigourney Weaver took her ‘stage’ name from Sigourney Howard, a minor character mentioned in The Great Gatsby. But what is also worth noting is the fact that the character’s name, ‘Mrs Sigourney Howard’, actually refers to the husband, so Sigourney is a male given name in the novel."
Etymology
According to Ernest Nègre in his book Toponymie générale de la France (1990), the French placename Sigournais comes from Old French Segurniaci, which itself has been derived from Latin Secorinus + -acum. So it appears that the resemblance to Germanic dithematic names starting with *segaz is superficial.