sigillum
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.
NounEdit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From signum (“sign”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *sigenlom > sigillum).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sigjel
- Vulgar Latin: *segellum
- Vulgar Latin: *sūgillum
- → Asturian: sixilu
- → Byzantine Greek: σιγίλλιον, σιγίλλον (sigíllion, sigíllon)
- → Arabic: سِجِلّ (sijill)
- → Basque: zigilu
- → Catalan: sigil
- → English: sigil
- → Galician: sixilo
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō)
- → Italian: sigillo
- → Norwegian: sigill
- → Old Dutch: *sigil
- → Old High German: [Term?]
- → Old Saxon: [Term?]
- → Portuguese: sigilo
- → Romanian: sigiliu
- → Spanish: sigilo
- → Swedish: sigill
- → Venetian: sigìło
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 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