Latin edit

Etymology edit

The origin is uncertain.[1] Probably not Indo-European, therefore a candidate substrate term. Compare Latin siliqua.

Noun edit

silīgō f (genitive silīginis); third declension

  1. winter wheat

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative silīgō silīginēs
Genitive silīginis silīginum
Dative silīginī silīginibus
Accusative silīginem silīginēs
Ablative silīgine silīginibus
Vocative silīgō silīginēs

References edit

  • siligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • siligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • siligo 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)
  • siligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “siligo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 537