spicarium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From spīca (ear of grain) +‎ -ārium. Attested in the Lex Salica and Lex Alamannorum. Also found in 12th– and 13th-century texts.[1][2]

Noun

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spīcārium n (genitive spīcāriī or spīcārī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

  1. granary
    • Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
      si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
      if anyone sets fire to a corn-store or barn with grain[3]

Inflection

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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  • Old French: spir, espier sperial, spurel (Liège)
  • Proto-West Germanic: *spīkārī (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “spicarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 984
  2. ^ spicarium2 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)
  3. ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 314