Sicily

English

Etymology

From Italian Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicels”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsɨli/

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Proper noun

Sicily (plural Sicilies) (see usage notes below)

1. An autonomous region and island in Italy.

Usage notes

• While the rules of English state that proper nouns ending in y add an s to form their plural (as in Germanys and Marys), Sicily is an exception to this rule, as in The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Derived terms

• Sicilian

Related terms

• Sicel

Translations

island

• Afrikaans: Sisilië
• Albanian: Siçilia f
• Amharic: ሲኪልያ (sikilya)
• Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة‎ f (ṣiqilliyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا‎ f (sisilia)

  Hijazi Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة‎ f (ṣigilliya)

• Aragonese: Secilia f
• Armenian: Սիցիլիա (Sicʿilia)
• Asturian: Sicilia f
• Azerbaijani: Siciliya
• Basque: Sizilia
• Bavarian: Sizilien n
• Belarusian: Сыцылія f (Sycylija)
• Bengali: সিসিলি (śiśili), সিকিল্লি (śikilli)
• Breton: Sikilia f
• Bulgarian: Сицилия f (Sicilija)
• Catalan: Sicília (ca) f
• Chechen: Сицили (Sicili)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) (Xixīlǐ)

• Chuvash: Сицили (Sitsili)
• Cornish: Sisili f
• Corsican: Sicilia f
• Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
• Danish: Sicilien
• Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sicilio
• Estonian: Sitsiilia
• Extremaduran: Sicília f
• Faroese: Sikiloy f, Sisilia f
• Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Secila f
• French: Sicile (fr) f

  Middle French: Sycile f

• Friulian: Sicilie f
• Galician: Sicilia (gl) f
• Georgian: სიცილია (sicilia)
• German: Sizilien (de) n

  Alemannic German: Sizilie n

• Greek: Σικελία (el) f (Sikelía)

  Ancient: Σικελία f (Sikelía)

• Hausa: Sisiliya
• Hawaiian: Kikilia
• Hebrew: סִיצִילְיָה‎ f
• Hindi: सिसिली (sisilī)
• Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
• Icelandic: Sikiley f
• Ido: Sicilia (io)
• Indonesian: Sisilia
• Irish: An tSicil f
• Italian: Sicilia (it) f
• Japanese: シチリア (Shichiria), シチリア州 (Shichiria-shū) (region), シチリア島 (Shichiria-tō) (island), シシリー (Shishirī), シシリー島 (Shishirī-tō)
• Javanese: Sisilia
• Kazakh: Сицилия (Sïcïlïya)
• Korean: 시실리 (Sisilli)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Sîcîlya (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Сицилия (ky) (Sitsiliya)
• Ladino: Sisilia f

• Latin: Sicilia (la) f
• Latvian: Sicīlija f
• Ligurian: Siçilia f
• Limburgish: Sicilië n
• Lithuanian: Sicilija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sizilien n

• Luxembourgish: Sizilien n
• Macedonian: Сицилија f (Sicilija)
• Malayalam: സിസിലി (sisili)
• Maltese: Sqallija m
• Maori: Hihirī
• Marathi: सिसिली (sisilī), सिचिल्या (sicilyā)
• Mingrelian: სიცილია (sicilia)
• Neapolitan: Sicilia f
• Norman: Sicile f
• North Frisian: Siziilien n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sicilia f

  Nynorsk: Sicilia f

• Occitan: Sicília f
• Old English: Sicilia
• Old Norse: Sikiley f, Sikelö
• Ossetian: Сицили (Sicili)
• Ottoman Turkish: چچلیا‎
• Persian: سیسیل‎ (fa) (sisil), صقلیه‎ (seqliye)
• Picard: Sicile f
• Piedmontese: Sicilia f
• Polish: Sycylia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sicília (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਚੀਲੀਆ (sicīlīā)
• Romanian: Sicilia f
• Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f (Sicílija)
• Sardinian: Sitzìlia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сѝцӣлија f

  Roman: Sìcīlija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Sicilia f
• Silesian: Sycylijo n
• Slovak: Sicília f
• Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
• Somali: Sasiiliya
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Siciliska f

  Upper Sorbian: Sicilska f

• Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
• Swahili: Sisilia
• Swedish: Sicilien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Sisily
• Tamil: சிசிலி (cicili)
• Tarantino: Sicilie f
• Telugu: సిసిలీ (sisilī)
• Thai: ซิซิลี (sí-sí-lee)
• Tibetan: སི་ཅི་ལི་ཡ། (si ci li ya)
• Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сици́лія f (Sycýlija)
• Venetian: Siciłia f
• Volapük: Sikileän (vo)
• Welsh: Sisili f
• West Flemish: Sicilië n
• West Frisian: Sisylje
• Yakut: Сициилийэ (Sitsiiliye), Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
• Yiddish: סיציליע‎ f (sitsilye)