Talk:sicera
Gender and declension
[edit]I was unable to find a reliable source that gave the stem sicerat- for this word, so I removed the genitive singular form siceratis. The word comes from a Greek indeclinable neuter noun; in principle, adapting this to the Latin third declension with an un-etymological -t- seems possible (the word pascha seems to have sometimes been declined with the stem paschat-), but I haven't found any reliable evidence that actually supports that stem: only some online dictionary entries like this one (and perhaps even copied from this one). I only found a single example of "siceratis" used in a text: "Prehistoric Exchange at Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico", by Mark E. Harlan (1975), refers to a species by the name of "Langenaria siceratis" which seems to be an undocumented synonym of "Lagenaria siceraria". It could possibly even be a typo, since "t"/"r" and "a"/"s" are both adjacent letter pairs.--Urszag (talk) 22:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)