cicer
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See also: Cicer
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A wanderwort akin to Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”), Ancient Macedonian κίκερροι (kíkerrhoi, “chickpea”), perhaps also Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “a variety of chickpea”). Compare also Old Georgian ცერცჳ (cercwi, “broad bean; Vicia faba”), whence Georgian ცერცვი (cercvi).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈki.ker/, [ˈkɪkɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃer/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃer]
Noun
[edit]cicer n (genitive ciceris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicer | cicera |
Genitive | ciceris | cicerum |
Dative | cicerī | ciceribus |
Accusative | cicer | cicera |
Ablative | cicere | ciceribus |
Vocative | cicer | cicera |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aromanian: tseatsiri
- Dalmatian: cič
- Old French: ceire, çoire, cice
- French: pois chiche
- English: chickpea
- French: pois chiche
- Italian: cece, cecio
- Romanian: cece
- Ligurian: çéixou
- Piedmontese: cèis, cise
- Mozarabic: *čičar
- Occitan: céser
- Sardinian: cìxiri
- Sicilian: cìciru
- Venetian: cexarìna
- → Albanian: qiqër, qiq
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kikerā (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cicer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.