siliqua

See also: síliqua

English

Noun

siliqua (plural siliquas or siliquae)

1. (botany) Alternative form of silique
2. A weight of four grains; a carat.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Often related to silex (“flint”), but De Vaan suggests a relationship with siligō (“winter wheat”) instead on the grounds of the unusual suffix and closer semantics. Likely of substrate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li.kʷa/, [ˈs̠ɪlʲɪkʷä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li.kwa/, [ˈsiːlikwä]

Noun

siliqua f (genitive siliquae); first declension

1. pod (of a pea or bean plant)
2. A small coin, one twenty-fourth of a solidus

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	siliqua	siliquae
Genitive	siliquae	siliquārum
Dative	siliquae	siliquīs
Accusative	siliquam	siliquās
Ablative	siliquā	siliquīs
Vocative	siliqua	siliquae

Derived terms

• siliquae
• siliqua Graeca
• siliquor
• siliquastrēnsis
• siliquastrum
• siliquāticum
• siliqua Syriaca
• silicula

Descendants

• Middle English: siliqua
• English: silique
• French: silique
• Italian: serqua

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “silex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 564
• “siliqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “siliqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• siliqua 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)
• sĭlĭqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,442.
• “siliqua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “siliqua”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “siliqua” on page 1,762/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “siliqua”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 971/2