sicarius

See also: Sicarius

Latin

Etymology

sīca (“dagger”) +‎ -ārius, from Proto-Albanian *tsikā

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siːˈkaː.ri.us/, [s̠iːˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈka.ri.us/, [siˈkäːrius]

Noun

sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension

1. assassin, contract killer, murderer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sīcārius	sīcāriī
genitive	sīcāriī sīcārī1	sīcāriōrum
dative	sīcāriō	sīcāriīs
accusative	sīcārium	sīcāriōs
ablative	sīcāriō	sīcāriīs
vocative	sīcārie	sīcāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: sicari
• → English: Sicarius
• → French: sicaire
• → Italian: sicario
• → Portuguese: sicário
• → Spanish: sicario

References

• “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
    
• “sicarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sicarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin