cicer
See also: Cicer
Latin
editEtymology
editA 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
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈki.ker/, [ˈkɪkɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃer/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃer]
Noun
editcicer n (genitive ciceris); third declension
- chickpea
- Columella, Res Rustica, 2.10.19.
- Cicer aut cicercula, quae piso est similis, mense Ianuario aut Februario seri debet laeto loco caelo umido
- The chick-pea or the chickling-vetch, which has a resemblance to the pea, should be sown in January or February in rich soil if the weather is moist
- Columella, Res Rustica, 2.10.19.
- (slang) testicle
Declension
editThird-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
editDescendants
edit- Aromanian: tseatsiri
- Dalmatian: cič
- Old French: ceire, çoire, cice
- French: pois chiche
- English: chickpea
- French: pois chiche
- Italian: cece, cecio
- Romanian: cece
- Ligurian: çéixou
- Piedmontese: cèis, cise
- Mozarabic: *čičar
- Occitan: céser
- Sardinian: cìxiri
- Sicilian: cìciru
- Venetian: cexarìna
- → Albanian: qiqër, qiq
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kikerā (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- “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.