secale

See also: Secale

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe a loanword from a language spoken in the Balkans.^[1] Has been compared unconvincingly to sēcula (“sickle”) and secō (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈkaː.ɫɛ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkaː.le]

Noun

secāle n (genitive secālis); third declension

rye, a kind of grain

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	secāle	secālia
genitive	secālis	secālium
dative	secālī	secālibus
accusative	secāle	secālia
ablative	secālī	secālibus
vocative	secāle	secālia

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: sicarã
- Romanian: secară
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: segale, ⇒ segala
- Tuscan and Central Italian: segale, segole ⇒ segala, segola, seguala
- Sicilian: sègala
Padanian:
- Emilian: séigar, sègher, sagle, säigle, ségul, sègal ⇒ segla, segàra, séigala, sgala
- Friulian: siale
- ⇒ Ligurian: séia, séiga, sêga
- Lombard:
  Alpine: ⇒ sèila, sèa
  
  Occidental seghel, ségal ⇒ segla, segra, selgra, ségria, sega
  
  Oriental: séghel, ségal, sìgal
- Piedmontese: sèil, sèi, sail, sèl, sè ⇒ segla, seirada
  - → Vivaro-Alpine: sèil, sèi
- Romagnol: segle, ségal, ségol, ségul, ségual
- ⇒ Venetan: siala, segala, segała
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal:
  Bressan: ⇒ sèglla, sèlya, sêlya
  
  Dauphinois: sêgla, sîdia
  
  Forézien: sêly, sêlyi
  
  Fribourgeois: ⇒ sàela
  
  Genevois: ⇒ sâla
  
  Lyonnais: sêgl ⇒ ségla, sêlya
  
  Jurassien: ⇒ sélyo, sêglo, sèlo
  
  Neuchâtelois: sèly
  
  Savoyard: sèla, séila, sèlya, sêla, sala
  
  Valaisin: ⇒ sèila, sèlya, sêgla, sila
  
  Valdôtain: ⇒ sèila
  
  Vaudois: sêgle ⇒ sèlya, saèla, sâla, sèla
- Old French: soile
  - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: seille
  - Bourguignon: soille
  - Champenois: soâle
  - Franc-Comtois: soile
  - Picard: soile
  - Walloon: swele, soil
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: ségal
  Ribagorçan: selga, séguel
- Catalan: sègol, segle, ségol, sèguel, sègal
- Old Occitan: segle
  - Auvergnat: selhe ⇒ selha, silha
  - Gascon: segle
  - Languedocien: segal, segle, siegle, sial, siàl, segol, siol ⇒ segla
  - Limousin: segle, seglhe, selhe
    Foishenc: séguel, séguelh
    
    Cevenòl: ⇒ segia, selha
  - Provençal: segle, segue, segie ⇒ segla
  - Vivaro-Alpine: sèu, sege ⇒ segla, sela, selha, seja
    Valadas: ⇒ sega
  - →? Old French: segle, seygle, soigle
    - Middle French: seigle
      - French: seigle
Borrowings
- → Byzantine Greek: σίκαλη (síkalē)
  - Greek: σίκαλη (síkali)
- →⇒ English: triticale (in part)
- → Old English: sigle
- → Old Irish: secal
  - Irish: seagal
  - Scottish Gaelic: seagal
- → Translingual: Secale

References

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “secale”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 504

Spanish

Verb

secale

second-person singular voseo imperative of secar combined with le

[1] Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “secale”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 504

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