sigillum

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English

Etymology

From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.

Noun

sigillum (plural sigilla)

  1. (law, historical) A seal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sigillum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From signum (“sign”) +‎ -ulum (diminutive suffix) (*signolom > *sign̥lom > *siginlom > sigillum).

Pronunciation

Noun

sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension

  1. figurine, statuette
    Synonyms: staticulum, statunculum
  2. seal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sigillum sigilla
Genitive sigillī sigillōrum
Dative sigillō sigillīs
Accusative sigillum sigilla
Ablative sigillō sigillīs
Vocative sigillum sigilla

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
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