cicer
See also: Cicer
Latin
Etymology
A wanderwort akin to Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”), Ancient Macedonian κίκερροι (kíkerrhoi, “chickpea”), perhaps also Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “a variety of chickpea”). Compare also Old Georgian ცერცჳ (cercwi, “broad bean; Vicia faba”), whence Georgian ცერცვი (cercvi).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈki.ker/, [ˈkɪkɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃer/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃer]
Noun
cicer n (genitive ciceris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicer | cicera |
Genitive | ciceris | cicerum |
Dative | cicerī | ciceribus |
Accusative | cicer | cicera |
Ablative | cicere | ciceribus |
Vocative | cicer | cicera |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Albanian: qiqër, qiq
- Aromanian: tseatsiri
- Dalmatian: cič
- → Danish: kikært
- → Finnish: kikherne
- Old French: ceire, çoire, cice
- French: pois chiche
- English: chickpea
- French: pois chiche
- → Old High German: kihhira
- Middle High German: kicher
- German: Kicher, Kichererbse
- Middle High German: kicher
- Italian: cece, cecio
- Romanian: cece
- Ligurian: çéixou
- Mozarabic: *čičar
- Occitan: céser
- Sardinian: cìxiri
- Sicilian: cìciru
- → Swedish: kikärt
- Venetian: cexarìna
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cicerō
References
- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.