sicca
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hindustani सिक्का / سکہ (sikkā), from Classical Persian سکه (sikka), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka)
Noun[edit]
sicca (plural siccas)
- A seal; a coining die.
- (attributive) The silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.
Derived terms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sicca” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sicca
- inflection of siccus:
Adjective[edit]
siccā
References[edit]
- sicca 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)
- “sicca”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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