spicarium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]spīcārium n (genitive spīcāriī or spīcārī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- 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]
- si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
- Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
| genitive | spīcāriī spīcārī1 |
spīcāriōrum |
| dative | spīcāriō | spīcāriīs |
| accusative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
| ablative | spīcāriō | spīcāriīs |
| vocative | spīcārium | spīcāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Old French: spir, espier ⇒ sperial, spurel (Liège)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *spīkārī (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “spīcarium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 175
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “spicarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 984
- ^ 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)
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 314