Borrowed from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum.

• Hyphenation: si‧ne‧te

sinete m (plural sinetes)

1. signet (object (especially a ring) used to impress a picture into sealing wax)

• “sinete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sinete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026