Latin

Noun

sīcīlis f ‎(genitive sīcīlis); third declension

1. an instrument for cutting; sword, sickle

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Derived terms

• sīcīlicula
• sīcīlicus
• sīcīlimenta
• sīcīliō

Descendants

• Aromanian: seatsirã, seatsiri
• Dalmatian: secla
• Middle Dutch: sikle; sichel
  • Dutch: sikkel; zichel
• Old English: sicol
  • English: sickle
• Old High German: sichila
  • German: Sichel
• Romanian: seceră

See also

• sīca

References

• sicilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SICILIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sicilis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• sicilis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers