cilicium

== Latin == === Etymology === From Cilicia (whence it comes from) + -ium. === Noun === cilicium n (genitive ciliciī or cilicī); second declension rug or garment made from goat hair ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: cilici → French: cilice → English: cilice → German: Cilicium → Italian: cilicio → Portuguese: cilício → Spanish: cilicio === References === “cilicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cilicium", 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) “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