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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Late Latin siglum (abbreviation), possibly a contracted form of:

The plural form sigla is a learned borrowing from Late Latin sigla.

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Noun

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siglum (plural sigla)

  1. A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word; specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early version of a text.
  2. (figurative) A thing which represents something else; a sign, a symbol.
    • 1963, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Michael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov, transl., The Gift, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson [], →OCLC, page 86:
      [H]e emerged onto a garden terrace where on the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail, the Dunlop stripe left by Tanya's bicycle, []

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ sigla, n.”, in OED Online  , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023.
  2. ^ siglum, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Possibly a contracted form of sigillum or singulum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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siglum n (genitive siglī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) abbreviation

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative siglum sigla
genitive siglī siglōrum
dative siglō siglīs
accusative siglum sigla
ablative siglō siglīs
vocative siglum sigla

Descendants

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  • Medieval Latin: sigla (plural; later interpreted as singular feminine)
  • English: siglum