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sigla

Syllables: sig·laUK/ˈsɪɡlə/

sigla is the plural of siglum.

Meaning of siglum

Noun

siglum (plural sigla)

  1. A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word; specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early version of a text.
  2. (figuratively) A thing which represents something else; a sign, a symbol.
    • [H]e emerged onto a garden terrace where on the soft red sand one could make out the sigla 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, […]1963, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Michael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov, transl., The Gift, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson […], →OCLC, page 86

Origin of sigla

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sigla.

Questions about sigla

What is sigla the plural of?
Sigla is the plural of siglum.
How do you pronounce sigla?
Sigla is pronounced /ˈsɪɡlə/ (UK).

Words near sigla in the dictionary

  1. Sigiriya
  2. sigisbeo
  3. sigisbeos
  4. sigismundite
  5. Sigl
  6. sigla
  7. siglarian
  8. siglec
  9. siglecs
  10. Sigler
  11. Siglers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sigla (page history and authors); siglum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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