Cilicia

See also: cilicia and Cilícia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Cilicia, from Ancient Greek Κιλικία (Kilikía).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɪsɪə/, /sɪˈlɪʃə/

Proper noun

Cilicia

2. (historical) An ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats.

Derived terms

• Cilician
• Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Related terms

• cilice

Translations

ancient region

• Armenian: Կիլիկիա (hy) (Kilikia)
• Bulgarian: Киликия (Kilikija)
• Catalan: Cilícia f
• Danish: Kilikien
• French: Cilicie (fr) f
• German: Kilikien (de) n
• Greek: Κιλικία (el) f (Kilikía)

  Ancient: Κιλικία (Kilikía)

• Hungarian: Kilikia
• Irish: an Chilic f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kîlîkya f

• Latin: Cilicia f
• Marathi: सिलिसिया (silisiyā), किलिकिया (kilikiyā)
• Parthian: 𐭊𐭉𐭋𐭊𐭉𐭀 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓 (Kilikiyā xšahr)
• Polish: Cylicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cilícia f
• Romanian: Cilicia f
• Russian: Килики́я (ru) f (Kilikíja)
• Spanish: Cilicia f
• Swedish: Kilikien, Cilicien
• Turkish: Kilikya
• Ukrainian: Кілікія (Kilikija)

Latin

Cilicia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κιλικία (Kilikía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪˈlɪ.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈliː.t͡ʃi.a]

Proper noun

Cilicia f sg (genitive Ciliciae); first declension

1. Cilicia (an ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Cilicia
genitive	Ciliciae
dative	Ciliciae
accusative	Ciliciam
ablative	Ciliciā
vocative	Cilicia
locative	Ciliciae

Descendants

• Translingual: Cilicia

References

• “Cilicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cilicia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Cilicia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θiˈliθja/ [θiˈli.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈlisja/ [siˈli.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -isja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: Ci‧li‧cia

Proper noun

Cilicia f

1. (historical) Cilicia (an ancient region in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey, famed for cilice, i.e. haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats)