sigillum

English

Etymology

From Latin sigillum. Doublet of sigil and seal.

Noun

sigillum (plural sigilla)

1. (law, historical) A seal

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈɡɪl.lũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈd͡ʒil.lum]

Noun

sigillum n (genitive sigillī); second declension

1. figurine, statuette

   Synonyms: staticulum, statunculum

2. seal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sigillum	sigilla
genitive	sigillī	sigillōrum
dative	sigillō	sigillīs
accusative	sigillum	sigilla
ablative	sigillō	sigillīs
vocative	sigillum	sigilla

Derived terms

• sigillō
• siglum

Descendants

• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: sigjel
• Vulgar Latin: *segellum
  • Old French: seel, cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele
    • Middle French: sceau
      • French: sceau
        • → Norman: sceau
    • → Middle English: sel, sele, selle, cel, seal, seale, sealle, seil
      • English: seal
        • → Punjabi: ਸੀਲ (sīl)
        • → Sotho: sili
        • → Swahili: sili
      • Scots: seal
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: sellu
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: segell
    • Occitan: sagèth, sagèl, sagèu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: seello
    • Galician: selo
    • Portuguese: selo
  • Old Spanish: sello, seello
    • Spanish: sello
• Vulgar Latin: *sūgillum
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: sugel
  • Italian: suggello
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: sugel
• → Asturian: sixilu
• → Byzantine Greek: σιγίλλιον (sigíllion), σιγίλλον (sigíllon)
  • → Arabic: سِجِلّ (sijill)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: سجل (sicil)
      • Turkish: sicil
      • → Armenian: սիջիլ (siǰil), սիճիլ (sičil)
    • → Malay: sijil
• → Basque: zigilu
• → Catalan: sigil
• → English: sigil
• → Galician: sixilo
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō)
• → Italian: sigillo
• → Norwegian: sigill
• → Old Dutch: *sigil
  • Middle Dutch: sēgel
    • Dutch: zegel
      • Afrikaans: seël
      • Negerhollands: siegel, siel
      • Petjo: segel
      • → Aukan: sekili
      • → Caribbean Javanese: sèkhel
      • → Indonesian: segel
• → Old High German:
  • Middle High German: sigel
    • Alemannic German: Sigel
    • German: Siegel
    • Luxembourgish: Sigel
• → Old Saxon:
  • Middle Low German: segel, seggel
    • → Danish: segl
    • → German: Siegel
    • → Norwegian: segl
• → Portuguese: sigilo
• → Romanian: sigiliu
• → Spanish: sigilo
• → Swedish: sigill
• → Venetan: sigìło

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