licium

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin; could be a loan from a non-Indo-European language [1].

Noun

līcium n (genitive līciī or līcī); second declension

  1. loop in the texture woven, through which the basic fabric is pulled
  2. thrum, leash
  3. thread

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aragonese: liza
  • Aromanian: ljitsã
  • Catalan: lliç
  • French: lice, lisse
  • Italian: liccio

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References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • licium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.