siliqua

siliqua (plural siliquas or siliquae)

1. (botany) Alternative form of silique
2. A weight of four grains; a carat.

Uncertain. Often related to silex (“flint”), but De Vaan suggests a relationship with siligō (“winter wheat”) instead on the grounds of the unusual suffix and closer semantics.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li.kʷa/, [ˈsɪ.lɪ.kʷa]

siliqua f (genitive siliquae); first declension

1. pod (of a pea or bean plant)
2. A small coin, one twenty-fourth of a solidus

First declension.

• siliquae
• siliqua Graeca
• siliquor
• siliquastrēnsis
• siliquastrum
• siliquāticum
• siliqua Syriaca

• Middle English: siliqua

• siliqua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• siliqua in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• siliqua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sĭlĭqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,442
• siliqua in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• siliqua in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “siliqua” on page 1,762/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “siliqua”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 971/2