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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈɡil.lum/, [s̠ɪˈɡɪl̠.l̠ʊ̃ˑ]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈd͡ʒil.lum/

NounEdit

sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension

figurine, statuette
seal

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
- 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
      - → Sotho: sili
      - → Swahili: sili
    - 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
→ 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
- 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

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