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Learned borrowing fromLate Latinsiglum(“abbreviation”), possibly acontracted form of:

• sigillum(“figurine, statuette; seal”), fromsignum(“figure, statue; seal, signet; mark, sign”) (ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*sek-(“to cut, sever; to cut off”) or*sekʷ-(“to follow”)) +-ulum(diminutivesuffix);^[1] or
• singulum, asingular form ofsingulus(“apiece; every; single”,adjective), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*sem-(“one; together”).^[2]

Theplural formsigla is alearned borrowing fromLate Latinsigla.

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American)IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡləm/

  • Audio(Southern England):

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  • Hyphenation:sig‧lum
• Plural:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American)IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡlə/
  • Hyphenation:sig‧la

siglum (pluralsigla)

1. Aletter or othersymbol thatstands for aname orword; specifically, oneused in amodernliterarywork torefer to anearlyversion of atext.
2. (figurative) Athing whichrepresents something else; asign, a symbol.
   • 1963,Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, inMichael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov, transl.,The Gift, London:Weidenfeld and Nicolson […],→OCLC,page86:

     [H]e emerged onto a garden terrace where on the soft red sand one could make out thesigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail, the Dunlop stripe left by Tanya's bicycle,[…]

• chrismon

• siglarian

• scribal abbreviation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “siglum,n.”, inCollins English Dictionary.
• “siglum”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

• mugils

Possibly a contracted form ofsigillum orsingulum.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.ɡɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.ɡlum]

siglum n (genitivesiglī);second declension

1. (Late Latin)abbreviation

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ⇒ Medieval Latin:sigla(plural; later interpreted as singular feminine)
  • → Catalan:sigla
  • → French:sigle
    • → German:Sigel
  • → Italian:sigla
  • → Portuguese:sigla
• → English:siglum

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