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Yes. The word siliqua is a Scrabble US word. The word siliqua is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is siliqua a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word siliqua is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

SILIQUA,

6-letter words (2 found)

QUAILS,SQUAIL,

5-letter words (3 found)

QUAIL,QUAIS,QUASI,

4-letter words (8 found)

AILS,ALUS,ILIA,LIAS,QUAI,SAIL,SAUL,SIAL,

3-letter words (13 found)

AIL,AIS,ALS,ALU,LAS,LIS,QIS,QUA,SAI,SAL,SAU,SUI,SUQ,

2-letter words (9 found)

AI,AL,AS,IS,LA,LI,QI,SI,US,

You can make 36 words from siliqua according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of siliqua

siliqua

Noun

siliqua (plural siliquas or siliquae)

  1. (botany) Alternative form 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. Likely of substrate origin.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.li.kʷa/, [ˈs̠ɪlʲɪkʷä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.li.kwa/, [ˈsiːlikwä]

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 noun.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

  • Middle English: siliqua
  • English: silique
  • French: silique
  • Italian: serqua

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “silex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 564
  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sĭlĭqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “siliqua”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 971/2

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