Sicily

English

Etymology

From Italian Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία ‎(Sikelía), from Σίκελος ‎(Síkelos, “Sicels”), the name of an ancient, indigenous people on the Tiber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsɨli/

Proper noun

Wikipedia

Sicily ‎(plural Sicilies) (see usage notes below)

1. An autonomous region and island of 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

Translations

island

• Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f ‎(ṣiqilliyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا f ‎(sisilia)

• Armenian: Սիցիլիա ‎(Sicʿilia)
• Belarusian: Сыцылія ‎(Sycylija)
• Bulgarian: Сицилия ‎(Sicilija)
• Catalan: Sicília
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) ‎(Xixīlǐ)

• Corsican: Sicilia
• Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
• Danish: Sicilien
• Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sicilio
• Estonian: Sitsiilia
• Faroese: Sikiloy f
• Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
• French: Sicile (fr) f

  Middle French: Sycile f

• Galician: Sicilia
• German: Sizilien (de)
• Greek: Σικελία (el) f ‎(Sikelía)
• Hawaiian: Kikilia
• Hebrew: סיציליה
• Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
• 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, island)
• Korean: 시실리 ‎(Sisilli)
• Latin: Sicilia (la) f
• Latvian: Sicīlija f
• Ligurian: Siçilia f
• Lithuanian: Sicilija
• Maltese: Sqallija
• Marathi: सिसिली ‎(sisilī)
• Norwegian: Sicilia
• Old Norse: Sikiley f
• Ottoman Turkish: چچلیا
• Persian: سیسیل (fa) ‎(Sisil), صقلیه ‎(Seqliye)
• Polish: Sycylia (pl)
• Portuguese: Sicília
• Romanian: Sicilia
• Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f ‎(Sicílija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Сицилија
• Sicilian: Sicilia f
• Slovak: Sicília f
• Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
• Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
• Swedish: Sicilien (sv)
• Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
• Volapük: Sikileän (vo)