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English
Noun
insignium (plural insignia)
- 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
- 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)
- insignia
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin īnsigne.
Noun
insignium n (definite singular insigniet, indefinite plural insignium, definite plural insignia)
- insignia