The story
- Middle French · derived frommonseigneur
- Italian · borrowed frommonsignore
- English todaymonsignor
From Italian monsignore, from signore under influence from Middle French monseigneur. Doublet of monseigneur and monsieur.
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchmonseigneur all →
monseigneur
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.