gigeria

== English == === Noun === gigeria plural of gigerium == Latin == === Alternative forms === *gicerium (Vulgar Latin) === Etymology === Uncertain; possibly from Middle Persian (compare Persian جگر (jegar)), or from a cognate in another language, which would ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥ (“liver”), whence the inherited iecur. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɪˈɡeː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒiˈd͡ʒɛː.ri.um] === Noun === gigēria n pl (genitive gigēriōrum); second declension the cooked entrails of poultry ==== Usage notes ==== Very rarely used in the singular. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only. ==== Descendants ==== → English: gigeria, gigerium Old French: gisier, gesier, giser English: gizzard French: gésier === References === “gigeria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gigeria”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “gizzard”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.