sigillum
English
Etymology
From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)
Latin
Etymology
From signum (“sign”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *siginlom > sigillum).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /siˈɡil.lum/, [s̠ɪˈɡɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈd͡ʒil.lum/, [siˈd͡ʒilːum]
Noun
sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension
- figurine, statuette
- Synonyms: staticulum, statunculum
- seal
Declension
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 terms
- sigillō
- siglum
Descendants
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sigjel
- Vulgar Latin: *segellum
- Old French: seel, cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele
- Middle French: sceau
- French: sceau
- → Norman: sceau
- French: sceau
- → Middle English: sel, sele, selle, cel, seal, seale, sealle, seil
- English: seal
- → Sotho: sili
- → Swahili: sili
- Scots: seal
- English: seal
- Middle French: sceau
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: sellu
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: segell
- Occitan: sagèth, sagèl, sagèu
- Old Portuguese: seello
- Galician: selo
- Portuguese: selo
- Old Spanish: sello, seello
- Spanish: sello
- Old French: seel, cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele
- Vulgar Latin: *sūgillum
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: sugel
- Italian: suggello
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sugel
- Eastern Romance:
- → Asturian: sixilu
- → Byzantine Greek: σιγίλλιον (sigíllion), σιγίλλον (sigíllon)
- → Arabic: سِجِلّ (sijill)
- → Ottoman Turkish: سجل (sicil)
- Turkish: sicil
- → Armenian: սիջիլ (siǰil), սիճիլ (sičil)
- → Ottoman Turkish: سجل (sicil)
- → 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
- Negerhollands: siegel, siel
- Petjo: segel
- → Aukan: sekili
- → Caribbean Javanese: sèkhel
- → Indonesian: segel
- Dutch: zegel
- Middle Dutch: sēgel
- → Old High German:
- Middle High German: sigel
- Alemannic German: Sigel
- German: Siegel
- Luxembourgish: Sigel
- Middle High German: sigel
- → Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German: segel, seggel
- → Danish: segl
- → German: Siegel
- → Norwegian: segl
- Middle Low German: segel, seggel
- → Portuguese: sigilo
- → Romanian: sigiliu
- → Spanish: sigilo
- → Swedish: sigill
- → Venetian: sigìło
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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