sceau

From Old French seel (whence also English seal), from Vulgar Latin *segellum, from Latin sigillum.

• IPA^(key): /so/

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• Rhymes: -o

sceau m (plural sceaux)

1. seal (pattern; design)

• sceller

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

• cause, causé, sauce

From Old French seel. The change in spelling from seau to sceau is unexplained, although it may be to disambiguate with seau (“bucket”)[1].

sceau m (plural sceaulx)

1. seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)

• French: sceau

• sceau on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

Borrowed from French sceau.

sceau m (plural sceaus)

1. (Guernsey) seal

• Jean des sceaus (“ring finger”)