cilicium

Latin

Noun

cilicium n (genitive ciliciī or cilicī); second declension

1. rug or garment made from goat hair

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cilicium	cilicia
genitive	ciliciī cilicī1	ciliciōrum
dative	ciliciō	ciliciīs
accusative	cilicium	cilicia
ablative	ciliciō	ciliciīs
vocative	cilicium	cilicia

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

Related terms

• Cilicia (where it originated)

Descendants

• Catalan: cilici
• English: cilice
• Italian: cilicio
• Spanish: cilicio

References

• “cilicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cilicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cilicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cilicium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin