siliqua

siliqua (plural siliquas or siliquae)

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

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.lɪ.kʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.li.kʷa]

siliqua f (genitive siliquae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• Italian: serqua
• Sardinian: silìqua, sibìqua, silimba
• → English: silique, siliqua
• → French: silique

• 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