spicarium

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Latin

Etymology

From spīca (ear of grain) +‎ -ārium. Attested in the Lex Salica and Lex Alamannorum. Also found in 12th- and 13th-century texts.[1][2]

Noun

spīcārium n (genitive spīcāriī or spīcārī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

  1. granary
    • Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
      si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
      if anyone sets fire to a corn-store or barn with grain[3]

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative spīcārium spīcāria
genitive spīcāriī
spīcārī1
spīcāriōrum
dative spīcāriō spīcāriīs
accusative spīcārium spīcāria
ablative spīcāriō spīcāriīs
vocative spīcārium spīcāria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Old French: spir, espier sperial, spurel (Liège)
  • Proto-West Germanic: *spīkārī (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “spicarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 984
  2. ^ spicarium2 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)
  3. ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 314