isicium

Latin

Alternative forms
  • īsicia, īnsicium, īnsicia

Etymology

From īnsecō (“cut up”) +‎ -ius, with regular deletion of /n/ before a fricative and compensatory lengthening.

Noun

īsicium n (genitive īsiciī or īsicī); second declension

  1. minced meat, forcemeat
    1. (specifically) rissole, meatball or mincemeat patty
    2. (Medieval Latin) stuffed meat, sausage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īsicium īsicia
Genitive īsiciī
īsicī1		 īsiciōrum
Dative īsiciō īsiciīs
Accusative īsicium īsicia
Ablative īsiciō īsiciīs
Vocative īsicium īsicia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • → Ancient Greek: ἰσίκιον (isíkion) (Koine)
  • Italian: ciccia

References
  • “insicium” on page 1015 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “secō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 550
  • isicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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