sica

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See also: Sica and šica

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin sīca.

Noun[edit]

sica (plural sicas or sicae)

  1. (historical) A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
    • 1996, Richard Ashton, Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey, British Inst of Archaeology at:
      [...] representation of a sheathed sickle on two fragments of a limestone plaque from Siristat (Figure 12). The plaque has not survived and only a sketch made by Jüthner records it. The publishers thought it showed a gladiatorial sica []
    • 2004 April 19, Junius Podrug, Dark Passage, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 302:
      He had been honing the blades of sica daggers when Marie was brought in, work that could only be done in the secrecy of night. The huddle broke up and four Sicarii left, including the man with the nervous eyes.
    • 2016 August 29, Kevin Logan, Actual Love: A Novel Inspired By True Events, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
      We growled as short sica daggers flashed from the folds of many robes.

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Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Iron sica, first century BCE

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin sīca.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: sì‧ca

Noun[edit]

sica f (plural siche)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) sica

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Further reading[edit]

  • Sica (arma) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • sica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown;[1] suggested to be borrowed from Proto-Albanian *tsikā (whence Albanian thikë (knife)), perhaps via Illyrian,[2] however, the long ī is problematic, and the borrowing may have in fact been the other way around.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sīca f (genitive sīcae); first declension

  1. a poniard, a curved dagger
  2. the edge of a boar's tusk
    Cum arbore et saxō aprī exacuant dentium sīcās.
    Boars may sharpen the edge of their tusks using tree and stone.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sīca sīcae
Genitive sīcae sīcārum
Dative sīcae sīcīs
Accusative sīcam sīcās
Ablative sīcā sīcīs
Vocative sīca sīcae

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • ? Proto-Albanian: *tsikā

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sīca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 561-562
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “thikë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 477
  3. ^ Meyer, G. (1891), “thikë”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 90
  • sica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sica 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)
  • sica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
  • sica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin