English

Noun

siliqua ‎(plural siliquas or siliquae)

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

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

siliqua f ‎(genitive siliquae); first declension

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

Declension

First declension.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Middle English: siliqua

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sĭlĭqua”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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)
• “siliqua” on page 971/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)