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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Seniority: a privileged position earned by reason of longer service or higher rank.
Seignority: business owned by an individual without the limited liability protection of a Corp or LLC.
(edit: "senior" is certainly the english derivative of the spanish "seignor"... but "seignority" seems like it would be an english-created-but-spanish-ized derivative of the same word... which I don't believe is a thing, although I am eager to find out if and how wrong I am)
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For what little it's worth:
Senior comes straight from Latin, where it originally meant ‘older’.
Seignor is the Old French spelling of
senior. The spelling and pronunciation changed to
seigneur in modern French. As far as I know, the Old French spelling only survives in a few legal terms such as the ones you're discussing.
Seņor is the Spanish spelling of
senior. My theory is that the Spanish noticed this odd twiddly symbol in the top-left corner of the keyboard and decided it would be cool to use it for something.