Why is the * nix segfault signal abbreviated as "SIGSEGV" and not "SIGSEGF"?

Is there a historical reason? Is there any reason at all or is this a pure coincidence? Wikipedia failed this time, so I hope you can provide me some info / answer. :)

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This is actually a segment violation.

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