Other forms: sigils
A sigil is a device or emblem standing for a house or a person. The house sigil, a carved sigil, wear the sigil.
It belongs to fantasy and to occult writing, where a sigil is a symbol drawn to hold a meaning or an intention. The Latin means a little sign, and it is the same word as seal.
1nounsigilA device or emblem standing for a house or a person.
“Each noble house carried its sigil on its banners, from a wolf to a golden lion.”
sigil is an emblem.
Latin sigillum means a little sign or seal; seal is a doublet.
Latin
sigillum — little sign
English, today
sigil
Borrowed from Latin sigillum (“little sign”). a doublet of seal and sigillum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA