sinapi

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Alternative forms

• senāpe, sināpe (neuters)
• senāpis, sināpis (third-declension feminines)
• senāpium, sināpium, sināpum, synāpium (Medieval Latin, second-declension neuters)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈnaː.pi/, [s̠ɪˈnäːpɪ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈna.pi/, [siˈnäːpi]

Noun

sināpi n (indeclinable)

1. (white) mustard (Sinapis arvensis) (the plant and its grain)

Derived terms

• senāpizō (Medieval Latin)
• *sinapionem

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: senape
  • Sicilian: sinapi
    • → Friulian: senape
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: senavra
  • Piedmontese: senëvra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Middle French: senevé
    • French: sanve
    • → Middle English: senvey
      • English: senvy
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: senabre
  • Gascon: sièp, assièp
  • Occitan: serbe
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: senabe
  • Galician: xebra
  • Spanish: jenabe, jenable (Maybe through mozarabic)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: sinapic, sinapine, sinapinic
  • → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍀𐌹𐍃 (sinapis) (or directly from Greek)
  • → Lower Sorbian: žonop
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *senap (see there for further descendants)
  • → Upper Sorbian: žonop

References

• “sĭnāpi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SENAPE 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)
• SENAPIUM 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)
• SYNAPIUM 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)
• sĭnāpi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,445/2.
• “sināpi” on pages 1,767–8 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sinapum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 972/2

  sinapum, sinapium = sinapis.

Etymology 2

Declined forms of sināpis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈnaː.piː/, [s̠ɪˈnäːpiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈna.pi/, [siˈnäːpi]

Noun

sināpī f

1. dative/ablative singular of sināpis

Etymology 3

A declined form of sināpum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈnaː.piː/, [s̠ɪˈnäːpiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈna.pi/, [siˈnäːpi]

Noun

sināpī n

1. genitive singular of sināpum

Samoan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Noun

sinapi

1. mustard

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sinapa

Etymology

From Latin sinapi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈna.pi/, [sɪˈna.pɪ]
• Rhymes: -api
• Hyphenation: si‧nà‧pi

Noun

sinapi f (plural sinapi)

1. (wild) mustard, Sinapis arvensis (the plant and its grain)

See also

• amareḍḍi
• malafufi
• malauffi
• rapu