silex
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
silex (countable and uncountable, plural silices)
- (archaic) Flint.
- A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.
- 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic
- Every little cold gust that I observed in the Colorado country had this corkscrew character […] an auger, of diameter varying from an inch to a thousand feet, capable of altering its direction so as to bore curved holes, revolving with incalculable rapidity, and armed with a cutting edge of silex.
- 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
silex m (plural silex)
Further readingEdit
- “silex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Uncertain. Sometimes compared to silīgō and siliqua, both of unclear origin as well. De Vaan suggests that these are derivatives of silex, which have undergone a semantic shift “pebble” > “small pod”.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
silex m or f (genitive silicis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | silex | silicēs |
Genitive | silicis | silicum |
Dative | silicī | silicibus |
Accusative | silicem | silicēs |
Ablative | silice | silicibus |
Vocative | silex | silicēs |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “silex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
- to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “silex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 564
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French silex, from Latin silex.
NounEdit
silex n (plural silexuri)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of silex
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) silex | silexul | (niște) silexuri | silexurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) silex | silexului | (unor) silexuri | silexurilor |
vocative | silexule | silexurilor |