ancile

== English == === Etymology === From Latin [Term?]. === Noun === ancile (plural ancilia or anciles) (Ancient Rome) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa Pompilius. 11 copies were said to have been made, and it was the palladium of Rome. === References === “ancile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Celina, NELIAC, alcine, inlace == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin. === Noun === ancile m (plural ancili) the sacred shield of the Ancient Romans === Anagrams === Celani, Celina, acline, alcine, canile, cilena, lincea == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from *amβi (“around”) +‎ *kaidō (“to cut”) (whence ambi- and caedō respectively), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi and *kh₂eyd- respectively. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈkiː.ɫɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.le] === Noun === ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). The genitive plural can be also ancīliōrum. === References === “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ancile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ancile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ancile”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN