Latin

Noun

sīca f ‎(genitive sīcae); first declension

1. a poniard, a curved dagger
2. the edge of a boar's tusk

   Cum arbore et saxo apri exacuant dentium sicas.

   Boars may sharpen the edge of their tusks using tree and stone.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• sīcārius

References

• sica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SICA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sica”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    
• sica in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sica in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin