senyorEtymologyFrom Catalan senyor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire.senyor means A Catalan-speaking gentleman. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.nounA Catalan-speaking gentleman.“Their relationship was much like that of the patron-client relationships of the senyors and tenants of the past except that, since these senyors had no children, the Deianenc family would be the heirs to the estate they worked.”