sigillum

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English

Etymology

From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.

Noun

sigillum (plural sigilla)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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Latin

Etymology

From signum (“sign”) +‎ -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *sigenlom > sigillum).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈɡil.lum/, [sɪˈɡɪl.lũː]

Noun

sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension

1. figurine, statuette
2. seal

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sigillum	sigilla
Genitive	sigillī	sigillōrum
Dative	sigillō	sigillīs
Accusative	sigillum	sigilla
Ablative	sigillō	sigillīs
Vocative	sigillum	sigilla

Derived terms

• sigillō
• siglum

Descendants

• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: sigjel
• Vulgar Latin: *segellum
  • Old French: seel, cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele
    • Middle French: sceau
      • French: sceau
        • → Norman: sceau
    • → Middle English: sel, sele, selle, cel, seal, seale, sealle, seil
      • English: seal
        • → Scottish Gaelic: seula
      • Scots: seal
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: sellu
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Catalan: segell
    • Occitan: sagèth, sagèl, sagèu
  • Old Portuguese: seello
    • Galician: selo
    • Portuguese: selo
  • Old Spanish: [Term?]
    • Spanish: sello
• Vulgar Latin: *sūgillum
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: sugel
  • Italian: suggello
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: sugel
• → Asturian: sixilu
• → Catalan: sigil
• → English: sigil
• → Galician: sixilo
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō)
• → Italian: sigillo
• → Norwegian: sigill
• → Old Dutch: *sigil
  • Middle Dutch: sēgel
    • Dutch: zegel
      • Afrikaans: seël
      • → Indonesian: segel
• → Old High German: [Term?]
  • Middle High German: sigel
    • Alemannic German: Sigel
    • German: Siegel
    • Luxembourgish: Sigel
• → Old Saxon: [Term?]
  • Middle Low German: segel, seggel
    • → Danish: segl
    • → German: Siegel
    • → Norwegian: segl
• → Portuguese: sigilo
• → Romanian: sigiliu
• → Spanish: sigilo
• → Swedish: sigill
• → Venetian: sigìło

References

• 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