insignium
English
editNoun
editinsignium (plural insignia)
- A symbol or sign of something.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:
- In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus. The instrument of writing became the androgynous insignium for the sacred wedding of sexuality and language.
Latin
editAdjective
editīnsignium
References
edit- insignium 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)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editNoun
editinsignium n (definite singular insigniet, indefinite plural insignier, definite plural insignia or insigniene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editinsignium n (definite singular insigniet, indefinite plural insignium, definite plural insignia)
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