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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative līcium līcia
Genitive līciī
līcī1 		līciōrum
Dative līciō līciīs
Accusative līcium līcia
Ablative līciō līciīs
Vocative līcium līcia

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.
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