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Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin *Sicania (“land of the Sicani”), from Sicani, a tribe described by Pliny as living in Latium (likely before their move to Sicily). Both names could be doublets of signum (“signal, mark”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Signia f sg (genitive Signiae); first declension
- An ancient city in Latium, situated on a lofty hill, now Segni
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Signia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Signia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Signia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 493