sigillum

English

Etymology

From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.

Noun

sigillum (plural sigilla)

(law, historical) A seal

Latin

Etymology

From signum (“sign”) + -lum (diminutive suffix), formed at an earlier stage of the language: *signolom > *sign̥lom > *siginlom > sigillum. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈɡɪl.lũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈd͡ʒil.lum]

Noun

sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension

figurine, statuette
Synonyms: staticulum, statunculum
seal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sigillum	sigilla
genitive	sigillī	sigillōrum
dative	sigillō	sigillīs
accusative	sigillum	sigilla
ablative	sigillō	sigillīs
vocative	sigillum	sigilla

Derived terms

Descendants

Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sigjel
Vulgar Latin: *segellum
- Old French: seel, cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele
  - Middle French: sceau
    - French: sceau
      - → Norman: sceau
  - → Middle English: sel, cel, seal, seale, sealle, seel, seil
    - English: seal
      - → Scottish Gaelic: seula
- Old Leonese: sello, seello
  - Asturian: sellu
- → Old Leonese: seyello, seyiello, siyello (semi-learned)
  - Asturian: (obsolete) sexellu
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: segell
  - Occitan: sagèth, sagèl, sagèu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: seello
  - Galician: selo
  - Portuguese: selo
- Old Spanish: sello, seello
  - Spanish: sello
Vulgar Latin: *sūgillum
- Eastern Romance:
  - Romanian: sugel
- Italian: suggello
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: sugel
→ Asturian: sixilu
→ Byzantine Greek: σιγίλλιον (sigíllion), σιγίλλον (sigíllon)
- → Arabic: سِجِلّ (sijill)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: سجل (sicil)
    - Turkish: sicil
    - → Armenian: սիջիլ (siǰil), սիճիլ (sičil)
  - → Malay: sijil
→ Basque: zigilu
→ Catalan: sigil
→ English: sigil
→ Galician: sixilo
→ Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō)
→ Italian: sigillo
→ Norwegian: sigill
→ Old Dutch: *sigil
- Middle Dutch: sēgel
  - Dutch: zegel
    - Afrikaans: seël
    - Negerhollands: siegel, siel
    - Petjo: segel
    - → Aukan: sekili
    - → Caribbean Javanese: sèkhel
    - → Indonesian: segel
→ Old High German:
- Middle High German: sigel
  - Alemannic German: Sigel
  - German: Siegel
  - Luxembourgish: Sigel
→ Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German: segel, seggel
  - Plautdietsch: Säajel
  - → Danish: segl
  - → German: Siegel
  - → Norwegian: segl
→ Portuguese: sigilo
→ Romanian: sigiliu
→ Spanish: sigilo
→ Swedish: sigill
→ Venetan: sigìło

References

“sigillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"sigillum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“sigillum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“sigillum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers