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Latin
Etymology
The origin is uncertain.[1] Probably not Indo-European, therefore a candidate substrate term. Compare Latin siliqua.
Noun
silīgō f (genitive silīginis); third declension
- winter wheat
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “siligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “siligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- siligo 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)
- siligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.