spicarium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From spīca (“ear of grain”) + -ārium. Attested in the Lex Salica and Lex Alamannorum. Also found in 12th– and 13th-century texts.[1][2]
Noun edit
spīcārium n (genitive spīcāriī or spīcārī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- granary
- Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
- si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
- if anyone sets fire to a corn-store or barn with grain[3]
- si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
- Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
Inflection edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
| Genitive | spīcāriī spīcārī1 |
spīcāriōrum |
| Dative | spīcāriō | spīcāriīs |
| Accusative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
| Ablative | spīcāriō | spīcāriīs |
| Vocative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Old French: spir, espier ⇒ sperial, spurel (Liège)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *spīkārī (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “spīcarium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 175
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “spicarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 984
- ^ spicarium2 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)
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 314