signature

Etymology
Borrowed from, or from , future active periphrastic of verb from , + , feminine of , future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1)  A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
 * 2) An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
 * 3)  The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
 * 4)  Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
 * 5)  A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
 * 6)  A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
 * 7)  Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
 * 8)  A mark or sign of implication.
 * 9) A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
 * 10)  A  specifying the sign of coefficients in any  of a.
 * 11)  A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
 * 12)  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.
 * 1) A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
 * 2)  A  specifying the sign of coefficients in any  of a.
 * 3)  A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
 * 4)  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.
 * 1)  A  specifying the sign of coefficients in any  of a.
 * 2)  A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: handtekening
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চহী
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡултамға, имза
 * Belarusian: по́дпіс
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: підпис
 * Catalan: signatura
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: fīrma
 * Cornish: sinans
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: subskribo
 * Estonian: allkiri
 * Faroese: undirskrift
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, firma
 * Georgian: ხელმოწერა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, दस्तख़त
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: raspiska
 * Irish: síniú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:, қолтаңба
 * Khmer: ហត្ថលេខា
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: sinyatura
 * Lao:
 * Latin: subscriptiō
 * Latvian: paraksts
 * Lithuanian: parašas
 * Macedonian: по́тпис
 * Malay: tandatangan
 * Maori: hainatanga, mokotā
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: гарын үсэг
 * Norman: sîngnatuthe, sîngne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: underskrift, signatur
 * Old English: handseten
 * Oromo: mallattoo
 * Ottoman Turkish: امضا, پنچه
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ainm-sgrìobhte
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀тпис
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: අත්සන
 * Slovak: podpis
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pódpis
 * Upper Sorbian: podpis
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: lagda, pirma
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gol
 * Ukrainian: пі́дпис
 * Urdu: دَسْتْخَط, امضا
 * Uyghur: ئىمزا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Võro: allkiri
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: חתימה


 * Afrikaans: handtekening
 * Arabic:
 * Bashkir: ҡул ҡуйыу
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: подпи́сване
 * Finnish: allekirjoittaminen
 * French:
 * Ottoman Turkish: امضا
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: підписа́ння


 * Bengali:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: сигнату́ра
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: signatur
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: varmenne
 * French:
 * Polish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * French:


 * Albanian:
 * Spanish: ,

Adjective

 * 1) Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.

Translations

 * Russian:

Etymology
From ; cf. Medieval Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  a person's name written in their own handwriting
 * désavouer sa signature
 * 1) the act of signing