insignium

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English

Noun

insignium (plural insignia)

  1. A symbol or sign of something.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:
      In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus. The instrument of writing became the androgynous insignium for the sacred wedding of sexuality and language.

Latin

Adjective

īnsignium

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of īnsignis

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin īnsigne.

Noun

insignium n (definite singular insigniet, indefinite plural insignier, definite plural insignia or insigniene)

  1. insignia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin īnsigne.

Noun

insignium n (definite singular insigniet, indefinite plural insignium, definite plural insignia)

  1. insignia