tigillum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of tignum (same process as that in sigillum < signum).

Noun

tigillum n (genitive tigillī); second declension (Diminutive of: tignum)

1. small piece of wood
2. small beam
3. (Late Latin, alchemy) a crucible, a cupel, referring to the Crucifixion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tigillum	tigilla
genitive	tigillī	tigillōrum
dative	tigillō	tigillīs
accusative	tigillum	tigilla
ablative	tigillō	tigillīs
vocative	tigillum	tigilla

Derived terms

• Tigillīnus/ Tigellīnus
• Tigillus

Descendants

• Galician: tilla

References

• “tigillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tigillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tigillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.