cicer
See also: Cicer
Latin edit
Etymology edit
A wanderwort akin to Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”), Ancient Macedonian κίκερροι (kíkerrhoi, “chickpea”), perhaps also Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “a variety of chickpea”). Compare also Old Georgian ცერცჳ (cercwi, “broad bean; Vicia faba”), whence Georgian ცერცვი (cercvi).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈki.ker/, [ˈkɪkɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃer/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃer]
Noun edit
cicer n (genitive ciceris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicer | cicera |
Genitive | ciceris | cicerum |
Dative | cicerī | ciceribus |
Accusative | cicer | cicera |
Ablative | cicere | ciceribus |
Vocative | cicer | cicera |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: tseatsiri
- Dalmatian: cič
- Old French: ceire, çoire, cice
- French: pois chiche
- English: chickpea
- French: pois chiche
- Italian: cece, cecio
- Romanian: cece
- Ligurian: çéixou
- Piedmontese: cèis, cise
- Mozarabic: *čičar
- Occitan: céser
- Sardinian: cìxiri
- Sicilian: cìciru
- Venetian: cexarìna
- → Albanian: qiqër, qiq
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kikerā (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.