sinapi

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Alternative forms

• senāpe, sināpe (neuters)
• senāpis, sināpis (third-declension feminines)
• senāpium, sināpium, sināpum, synāpium (Medieval Latin, second-declension neuters)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈnaː.pɪ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈnaː.pi]

Noun

sināpi n (indeclinable)

1. white mustard (Sinapis arvensis L.) (the plant and its grain)

Derived terms

• senāpizō (Medieval Latin)
• *sinapionem

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: senape
    • → Friulian: senape
  • Sicilian: sinapi
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: senavra
  • Piedmontese: senëvra
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Old French: senevé, senevei
    • Middle French: senevé
      • French: sanve (regional)
    • → Middle English: senevey
      • English: senvy (obsolete)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: senabre
  • Occitan: serbe
    • Gascon: sièp, ⇒ assièp
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: senabe
  • Galician: xebra
  • Spanish: jenabe, jenable (or through Mozarabic)
• Borrowings:
  • ⇒ English: sinapic, sinapine, sinapinic
  • → Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍀𐌹𐍃 (sinapis) (or directly from Greek)
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *senap (see there for further descendants)

References

• “sĭnāpi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "SENAPE", 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)
• "SENAPIUM", 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)
• "SYNAPIUM", 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)
• “sĭnāpi”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,445/2.
• “sināpi” on pages 1,767–8 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “sinapum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 972/2

  sinapum, sinapium = sinapis.

Etymology 2

Declined forms of sināpis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈnaː.piː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈnaː.pi]

Noun

sināpī f

1. dative/ablative singular of sināpis

Etymology 3

A declined form of sināpum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈnaː.piː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈnaː.pi]

Noun

sināpī n

1. genitive singular of sināpum

Samoan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Noun

sinapi

1. mustard

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sinapa

Etymology

From Latin sinapi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈna.pi/, [sɪˈna.pɪ]
• Rhymes: -api
• Hyphenation: si‧nà‧pi

Noun

sinapi f (plural sinapi)

1. (wild) mustard, Sinapis arvensis (the plant and its grain)

See also

• amareḍḍi
• malafufi
• malauffi
• rapu