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English
Etymology
From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.
Noun
sigillum (plural sigilla)
- (law, historical) A seal (not the animal)
Latin
Etymology
From signum (“sign”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *siginlom > sigillum).
Pronunciation
Noun
sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension
- figurine, statuette
- Synonyms: staticulum, statunculum
- seal
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sigillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sigillum 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)
- sigillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sigillum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers