isicium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === īnsicia, īnsicium, īsicia, īssicium === 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 minced meat, forcemeat (specifically) rissole, meatball or mincemeat patty (Medieval Latin) stuffed meat, sausage ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “isicium” in volume 7, part 2, column 492, line 257 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present === Further reading === “isicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press