siniscalcus
Latin
Alternative forms
- senescalcus, sinescalcus, seniscalcus
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *siniskalk (“seneschal”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /si.nisˈkal.kus/, [s̠ɪnɪs̠ˈkäɫ̪kʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /si.nisˈkal.kus/, [sinisˈkälkus]
Noun
siniscalcus m (genitive siniscalcī); second declension[1][2]
- (Medieval Latin) seneschal, steward, mayordomo
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | siniscalcus | siniscalcī |
| Genitive | siniscalcī | siniscalcōrum |
| Dative | siniscalcō | siniscalcīs |
| Accusative | siniscalcum | siniscalcōs |
| Ablative | siniscalcō | siniscalcīs |
| Vocative | siniscalce | siniscalcī |
Descendants
- Old French: seneschal, seneschall
- Middle French: seneschal, senechal
- French: sénéchal
- → Middle Armenian: սենեսկալ (seneskal), սենէսկալ (senēskal), սենեսջալ (senesǰal), սինիջալ (siniǰal), սինէգալ (sinēgal)
- → Middle Dutch: seneschal, seneschael
- Dutch: seneschalk, seneschaal, seneschael, seneschalck; seneschal
- → Middle English: seneschal, senescall, seneschall
- English: seneschal
- Scots: senescall, seneschall (obsolete)
- → Middle High German: seneschalc, sëneschalt, seneschlant, scheneschlant (also possibly from Middle Latin)
- German: Seneschall
- Middle French: seneschal, senechal
- Italian: siniscalco
- Old Occitan: senescalc
- Catalan: senescal
- Occitan: senescalc
- → Spanish: senescal
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “senescalcus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 956
- siniscalcus 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)