nigellus
Latin
Etymology
From niger (“black”) + -lus.
Adjective
nigellus (feminine nigella, neuter nigellum); first/second-declension adjective
- Diminutive of niger (“black”): somewhat black
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | nigellus | nigella | nigellum | nigellī | nigellae | nigella | |
Genitive | nigellī | nigellae | nigellī | nigellōrum | nigellārum | nigellōrum | |
Dative | nigellō | nigellō | nigellīs | ||||
Accusative | nigellum | nigellam | nigellum | nigellōs | nigellās | nigella | |
Ablative | nigellō | nigellā | nigellō | nigellīs | |||
Vocative | nigelle | nigella | nigellum | nigellī | nigellae | nigella |
Derived terms
- nigella
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: niello
- → English: niello
- → French: nielle (probably)
- Italian: niello
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: nigheddu, nieddu
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: neel, neiel, noel, noiel
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: niell
- Old Occitan: niel
- → Portuguese: nielo
- → Spanish: niel
- Borrowings:
- → English: Nigel
- → Portuguese: nigelo
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nĭgĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 128
Further reading
- “nigellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nigellus 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)
- nigellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette