monsieur

French monsieur

monsieur (plural monsieurs or messieurs)

1. (dated) A man, especially a French gentleman.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!

• inermous

From mon (“my”) + sieur, from the oblique case of Old French sire (cf. also seignor), ultimately from Latin senior.

• IPA^(key): /mə.sjø/, (archaic, sometimes used jocularly) /mɔ.sjø/, (obsolete) /mɔ̃.sjø/

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monsieur m (plural messieurs)

1. mister, sir (a title or form of address for a man)

• M.
• M^r

• sieur
• sire

• madame
• mademoiselle
• monseigneur

• “monsieur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• muerions
• remuions