siglum
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Late Latin siglum (“abbreviation”), possibly a contracted form of:
- sigillum (“figurine, statuette; seal”), from signum (“figure, statue; seal, signet; mark, sign”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut, sever; to cut off”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”)) + -ulum (diminutive suffix);[1] or
- singulum, a singular form of singulus (“apiece; every; single”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).[2]
The plural form sigla is a learned borrowing from Late Latin sigla.
Pronunciation
edit- Singular:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɡləm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: sig‧lum
- Plural:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɡlə/
- Hyphenation: sig‧la
Noun
editsiglum (plural sigla)
- A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word; specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early version of a text.
- (figurative) A thing which represents something else; a sign, a symbol.
- 1963, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Michael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov, transl., The Gift, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson […], →OCLC, page 86:
- [H]e emerged onto a garden terrace where on the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail, the Dunlop stripe left by Tanya's bicycle, […]
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editletter or other symbol that stands for a name or word
References
edit- ^ “sigla, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023.
- ^ “siglum, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
edit- scribal abbreviation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “siglum, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “siglum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editPossibly a contracted form of sigillum or singulum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɡlum/, [ˈs̠ɪɡɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɡlum/, [ˈsiːɡlum]
Noun
editsiglum n (genitive siglī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | siglum | sigla |
genitive | siglī | siglōrum |
dative | siglō | siglīs |
accusative | siglum | sigla |
ablative | siglō | siglīs |
vocative | siglum | sigla |
Descendants
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-
- English terms borrowed from Late Latin
- English learned borrowings from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with quotations
- en:Writing
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Late Latin