secale

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe a loanword from a language spoken in the Balkans.[1] Has been compared unconvincingly to sēcula (“sickle”) and secō (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sēcale n (genitive sēcalis); third declension

  1. rye, a kind of grain

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēcale sēcalia
Genitive sēcalis sēcalium
Dative sēcalī sēcalibus
Accusative sēcale sēcalia
Ablative sēcalī sēcalibus
Vocative sēcale sēcalia

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “secale”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 504

Further reading

  • “secale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • secale 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)
  • secale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

secale

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of secar combined with le
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