sicilis

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Sometimes assumed to be from secō (“cut”, verb), with a change of vowel quality. Varro associates siciliō with sectiō. Compare sēcula. Others, such as De Vaan 2008 and the OLD 1968-1982, assume that the word for "sickle" is the same as Ennius's identically spelled sīcīlis "blade, spearhead", from sīca (“dagger”) (with no relationship to secō). There is no evidence within Latin that directly confirms the length of the vowels in the first two syllables of the "sickle" word (its diminutive sicilicula is attested in Plautus in a context where the meter could allow either sīcīlĭcŭla, sĭcĭlĭcŭla or sīcĭlĭcŭla). The pronunciation sĭcĭlis, starting with two short syllables, is indirectly attested by the pronunciation of descendant words with the same meaning in Romance languages. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɪ.kɪ.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsiː.t͡ʃi.lis] ==== Noun ==== sicilis f (genitive sicilis); third declension (rare) sickle Synonyms: falx, falcula, sēcula ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Balkano-Romance: Aromanian: seatsiri Romanian: secere ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sicila, *sicilāre (see there for further descendants) → Proto-West Germanic: *sikilu (see there for further descendants) === Etymology 2 === From sīca + -īlis. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [siːˈkiː.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [siˈt͡ʃiː.lis] ==== Noun ==== sīcīlis f (genitive sīcīlis); third declension (rare) spearhead ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Derived terms ===== sīcīlicus === References === === Further reading === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sĭcĭlis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 591 “sicilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "sicilis", 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) “sicilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “sicilis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers