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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From īnsecō (“cut up”) + -ius, with regular deletion of /n/ before a fricative and compensatory lengthening.
Noun
īsicium n (genitive īsiciī or īsicī); second declension
- minced meat, forcemeat
116 BCE – 27 BCE,
Marcus Terentius Varro,
De Lingua Latina 5.110:
- Insicia ab eo quod insecta caro, ut in Carmine Saliorum <prosicium> est, quod in extis dicitur nunc prosectum.
- 1938 translation by Roland G. Kent
- Insicia ‘minced meat’ from this, that the meat is insecta ‘cut up,’ just as in the Song of the Salii the word prosicium ‘slice’ is used, for which, in the offering of the vitals, the word prosectum is now used.
- (specifically) rissole, meatball or mincemeat patty
- (Medieval Latin) stuffed meat, sausage
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “insicium” on page 1015 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “secō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 550
- isicium 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)
- “isicium” in volume 7, part 2, column 492, line 257 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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