English

Noun

Sicarius ‎(plural Sicarii)

1. (historical) One of a group of Jews who attempted to expel the Romans from Judea using concealed daggers.

Latin

Noun

sīcārius m ‎(genitive sīcāriī); second declension

1. assassin, murderer

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: Sicarius
• French: sicaire
• Italian: sicario
• Portuguese: sicário
• Spanish: sicario

References

• sicarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sicarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sicarius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
    
• sicarius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sicarius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin