sigillum
English
Etymology
From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.
Noun
sigillum (plural sigilla)
- (law, historical) A seal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sigillum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
From signum (“sign”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *sigenlom > sigillum).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /siˈɡil.lum/, [s̠ɪˈɡɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈd͡ʒil.lum/, [siˈd͡ʒilːum]
Noun
sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | 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: [Term?], *segellum
- Vulgar Latin: [Term?], *sūgillum
- → Asturian: sixilu
- → Catalan: sigil
- → English: sigil
- → Galician: sixilo
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō)
- → Italian: sigillo
- → Norwegian: sigill
- → Old Dutch: *sigil
- → Old High German:
- → Old Saxon:
- → Portuguese: sigilo
- → Romanian: sigiliu
- → Spanish: sigilo
- → Swedish: sigill
- → Venetian: sigìło
References
- “sigillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sigillum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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
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