Senorita vs. Senora

By Deane Barker • •

Archer, S1E8

Senorita is the Spanish equivalent of “Miss,” while senora is the equivalent of “Mrs.” So an unmarried woman is senorita, while a married woman is senora.

Why I Looked It Up

I thought the title of “senorita” applied to all women.

On an episode of Archer, Sterling address an attractive Latina woman as:

Senor … ita, I hope?

I got to wondering about that – given the character’s general desire to bed as many women as possible, it occurred to me the “ita” suffix must refer to an unmarried woman, but then I realized that I didn’t know what the opposite of that was.

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