siligo Latin · revision 36189

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''silīgō''' ''f'' (genitive silīginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD and Köbler call its origin unknown.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists it among the words beside [[m|la|silex|t=flint]] and thinks that the meaning of [[m|la|siliqua|t=pod]] is close enough to suggest that it was formed with ⟨-īgō⟩ on the same root; he doubts that the words for flint and pod belong together at all.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary calls it probably not Indo-European, a candidate substrate word.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and de Vaan date it from Cato,^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) whose farm manual mentions it.^(Conte 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a soft, very white kind of wheat,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) which Lewis and Short identify as winter wheat; it is found in Varro, Celsus, Columella and Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) By metonymy it meant fine wheaten flour, in Pliny and in Juvenal.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin, by confusion with [[m|la|secale]], it came to mean rye.^(Niermeyer 1976) British medieval writers used it of a cereal crop in general, of wheat as distinct from other grains, of rye and of bran.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato mentions it in his farm manual.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro mentions it in his work on farming.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella treats it as a kind of wheat.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of fine flour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A soft, very white kind of [[m|en|wheat]], winter wheat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Fine wheaten [[m|en|flour]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|rye|alt=Rye]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|bran|alt=Bran]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[silīginārius]]

+ * [[silīgineus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[siliqua]]

+ * [[silex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}